Willis J. Abbot
Capitolo 32
days would have passed as soon as from a nanny's care to that of a
guardian. Thomas T. Forbes, sent for example in front of the tree to the age
of thirteen; it was commander of the "Levant" to winds; and it was lost in the
River of canton before he was thirty years old. He was of a great family in the history
of England New that sends for one hundred years. Nathaniel Silsbee, later
Senator of United States from Massachusetts, was master of a ship in the east
Work of India before he had ventun years; while John P. Cushing to the age of
sixteen were the you sole--and extremely succeeded--representative in China of a
great house in Boston. William Sturges, after the head of a great
house of world trade, sent to seventeen it was a captain and manager
in the work of China to nineteen, and to twenty-nine left the quarter-bridge
with a competence to establish his/her firm that to the half checked of once
the work between the United States and China. A result of such successes
you/he/she would be narrated.
But the tax in which these Yankee boys paid for their introduction
to call was a heavy. The description of Dana of the life in the castle of bow,
written in 1840, it holds good for the conditions that prevail for forty years
before and forty after him the penned it. The regard that gave his/her captain
to the crew of the brig "Wandering" it was repeated, with the small variation, on
thousand quarter-bridge:
"Now, my men, we have started a long trip. If we get together well long
we will have comfortable once; if we don't do, we will put to hay afloat hell.
All you have to do it is to respect Your orders and to make Your duty as men--then
You will be all right; if you don't do, You enough it will go hard, I am able
tell him. If we collaborate together you it will find me an intelligent individual; if us
doesn't do, you will find me a bloody scoundrel. That is everything self I have to say. Goes
under the larboard you look."
But her note of the roughness and blackguardism you/he/she was not played on always
American ships. We find, in to look at the old monographs that more than one