Choosing a Ship--Signing on--Don Henderson--At a Seaman’s Tailor--First Day’s Work--Cleaning the Stringers--Sailors _v._ Base-ballers at Cricket--The Seaman’s Institute--My Carriboo Bag--A Sailors’ Concert--Emptying the Bilges--The _Marlboro’ Hill’s_ Crew of Landlubbers--Yankee Brutality at Sea--Chipping--Johnsen, the Swede. A Lively Time crossing the Bay--Mooring Ship--Sea Serpents--An Old South Seaman--More Cricket--The Bilges again--Lining the Hold--The Art of Painting--Mosquitoes and Song--Bleeding the Grain--Bending Sail--An Early Morning Picnic--Bathing in the Sacramento--A Fatality--Ready for Sea--Taking in Stores--Our Crew come Aboard--My Stewardship--The Return of the Californian B…
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