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White Jacket - or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Title: White Jacket or, The World on a Man-of-War
Author: Herman Melville
Release Date: January 13, 2004 [EBook #10712]
Language: English
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WHITE-JACKET OR THE WORLD IN A MAN-OF-WAR
BY HERMAN MELVILLE AUTHOR OF "TYPEE," "OMOO," AND "MOBY-DICK"
NEW YORK UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY 5 AND 7 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET * * * * * CHICAGO: 266 & 268 WABASH AVE.
Copyright, 1892 BY ELIZABETH S. MELVILLE
"Conceive him now in a man-of-war; with his letters of mart, well armed, victualed, and appointed, and see how he acquits himself." --FULLER'S "Good Sea-Captain."
NOTE. In the year 1843 I shipped as "ordinary seaman" on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service upon the vessel's arrival home. My man-of-war experiences and observations have been incorporated in the present volume.
New York, March, 1850.
WHITE-JACKET.
CHAPTER I
.THE JACKET.
It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show.
The way I came by it was this.
White Jacket
by Herman Melville
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