A Book for the Hammock

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

A NAUTICAL LAMENT.

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SEA.

OLD SEA ORDNANCE.

THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG.

THE NAVAL OFFICER'S SPIRIT.

WOMEN AS SAILORS.

FIGHTING SMUGGLERS.

SEA PHRASES.

THEN AND NOW.

COSTLY SHIPWRECKS.

CURIOSITIES OF DISASTERS AT SEA.

INFERNAL MACHINES.

QUEER FISH.

STRANGE CRAFT.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.

RICH CAPTURES.

PECULIARITIES OF RIG.

HOW THE OLD NAVIGATORS MANAGED.

PLATES AND RIVETS. [78]

FRENCH SMACKSMEN.

OLD SEA CUSTOMS.

WHO IS VANDERDECKEN?

 

WORKS BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. each; post 8vo, illustrated boards, 2s. each.

ROUND THE GALLEY FIRE.

ON THE FO’K’SLE HEAD: A Collection of Yarns and Sea Descriptions.

IN THE MIDDLE WATCH.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. each.

A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE.

A BOOK FOR THE HAMMOCK.


THE FROZEN PIRATE, the New Serial Novel by W. Clark Russell, Author of “The Wreck of the Grosvenor,” began in “Belgravia” for July, 1887, and will be continued till January, 1888. One Shilling, Monthly. Illustrated by P. Macnab.

LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

A BOOK FOR THE HAMMOCK
BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL
AUTHOR OF “A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE,” “ROUND THE GALLEY FIRE,”
“IN THE MIDDLE WATCH,” ETC.
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1887
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