CHAPTER I.

The Rocket—The Cargo—Shipping the Crew—The Start—Rolling—Discomfort—Quiet—Gale—Storm Music—Discipline—Northeast Trades—Aye! Aye!—Doldrums—Sharks—A Shark Story—South-east Trades.

CHAPTER II.

A Saucy Sailor—Sailors' Treatment—An Easy Ship—Three Kinds of Discipline—A Good Run—Proving the Reckoning—Sea birds.

CHAPTER III.

The Voyage of the "Dublin"—Capt. Streeter—A Darkey Crew—No Profanity—The Mates—A Bully—A Tobacco Cargo—Owner's Instructions—A Blower—No Sitting Down—Pomposity—Brass Knuckles—Flogging—The Third Mate—Reefing Topsails—Mr. Jones—A Smart Officer—The Brick-wall Theory—Reflections—Good Advice—Land, ho!—Porpoises—Mother Carey's Chickens—Captain and Mate—Land In Sight—Overheard—Gibraltar—Information—Where Christ was born—In the Mediterranean—Jake—Gulf of Lyons—Genoa Bay—Quarantine—Discharging Cargo.

CHAPTER IV.

The Voyage of the "Dublin" concluded—Genova La Superba—Leave of Absence—On Shore in Italy—Loading Marble—Mates' Opinions about Driving Sailors Ashore—Women in Ships—Anchor at Gibraltar—Through the Straits—Pumps Choked—How to Clinch Buntlines—Cleaning the Spittoon—A Sleepy Officer's Danger—Holystones—Beating a Boy—Officers' Ambition—Eternal Vigilance—Old Jenkings—A Breeze Aloft—The Pilot's Rebuff—Blood Tubs—Paying Off—Promotion—The Mate and the Owner.

CHAPTER V.

John Shephard—My Model Sailor—Christmas—Ode to the Rocket—Grub—Doubtful Islands—Becalmed off Java—Officers' Yarns—Off Java Head—Narrow Escape—A Floating Light.

CHAPTER VI.

Life in the East Indies—Carimata Passage—Singapore—Three Months' Extra Pay.

CHAPTER VII.

Penang—Penang Hill—Nearly Wrecked—Deliverance—West Coast of Sumatra—Padang—Padang Thieves—Padang Church—Malay Ordination—Padang Drives—Natives—Captain Blowhard—Insolence.

CHAPTER VIII.

Another Voyage in the "Dublin"—Second Mate—Mr. Howard's Grievances—Mr. Howard Leaves—Leaking—The New Mate—Second Mates' Duties—Ships' Work—Squalls—Old Harry—At the Fore-truck—Amsterdam—Dutchmen—The Captain's Relapse—Worrying the Second Mate—Dreams—A Growl—A Cabin Conference—An Irish Sailor—Two Finnish Sailors.

CHAPTER IX.

Another Voyage in the "Dublin" concluded—A North Sea Gale—The Lee Shore—In Distress—Good-bye to Old Harry—Captain's Yarns—Bullies—Gothenburg—Another Start—Decks Swept—Stopping the Leak—Hurrying the Crew—A Hard Life—A Freezing Gale—A False Bearing—Weatherwise—Leaving the "Dublin"—Mr. Wright's Letter—Capt. Streeter's End.

CHAPTER X.

Land Again—The "Flying Dutchman"—A Cape of Good Hope Gale—Gales—Rolling Down to St. Helena—Watch and Watch—Tarring Down—Sailors' Growls—Sailors' Opinions—Discontent in the Cabin—Ills of Sea Life.

CHAPTER XI.

Sailors' Resources—The Tar Barrel—A Wild Ship—Boarding a Vessel—Ready for Port.

CHAPTER XII.

Sailors' Songs—Bully or Coax—Treatment of Sailors—Schooner "Jane"—A Mackerel Shower—Fog on the Coast—Taking a Pilot—Arrived—Paying off—Scraping Belaying Pins.

"Once more upon the waters, yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed
That knows his rider."
—Byron's Childe Harold.
"Who would not sell a farm and go to sea?"—Sailor Proverb.