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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, BY THK AIITIIUU, in the office ol the Librarian of Congress, nt Washingto.i PREFATORY. |0R those wlio delight in tales of the marvelous, j the ocean is full of suggestion ; but however en- tertaining such stories may be for those whose niiufls require a strictly sensational diet, I have chosen to write for that class who prefer facts to fiction, and a "plain unvarnished tale" to the creations of im- agination. The sea may be considered a trite sub- ject by some; but to the lover of nature ils sublimity never becomes commonplace. Its vastness and its vicissitudes, its solitary grandeur and its stern reali- ties of danger, combine to invest it with iutereat ; and for those who have been long tossed on its waves and spent their years in familiarity with its varying moods, there is an indescribable charm about it and its incidents which will amply apologize for these sketches Keeping in view the excellence of truth in narra- tives of this kind, I have endeavored to present only facts, and make my pictures true to nature. THE AUTHOK. ii ■t-i ' Utu-kM iKHHiiaH Vi<'W Iroin l)i(i tup Lonely Graves- "Toboga Bill" and SliarkH A Hpetdnien itovolntion --<»IT for Acapiilco :>;t CHAI'TKR VIII. Flying IImIi, >"liales, TnrtlcM, Ac. -Boboa -Hi>n (JmIIh Arrival at Acapiil- co Town and Harbor Coniinerca TrHnHlbrri'd New QnarlcrH Viiiit ashore Mexican SoldinrH-IIonscH CIiniclieH Sliop8 Streets Water (.'arriors - A runtrast News or tlio I>eatli of Lincoln ivj on APT Kit IX. Trip to Itio Diilce An Krtoape- Shore and People -Cat KiHliIng at Sea Red l""i»h and Moon Kish -Shark Kisliing Shark's Tenacity of Ijife Kr- turn tlH C'UAI'TKIl X. (.'omtnerce of the Spanish Oalleons 71 CHAFTKB XI. Sleeping— My Oncnpations—Aniatenr Theatricals— Actor and Artist -Ban- ditti ashore -Two Slight Adventtireu T.* CIIAI'TKIl XII. Off on a Cruise for the Shenandoah— Ofl" I't. (Conception— The Golden tJate -Mare Island -Old Ships ( >fl' to Sea A Storm Ksqninialt, V. I. - Klat Uead liniians -Coaling -A Tragedy- OtV for the .Sandwich Islands — .V Tempest Kair Weather .\gain- Visit of a Blue bird in Mid- Ocean A Floating Spar-Water-Sponts -First View of the Sand- wiches ■'<•'« ClIAl'TKR XIII. Appearance of Oahii— News of the Shenandoah, - Off for the Mar(jnesas— Iloadwiods and Sfinalls— Fate of the Levant Crossing the "Line" — Ocean Scenes- Nnkahiva Bay, ManmcHas Islands t'annllmls— Catho- lic Missiouaries- Com. Porter and the Kssex Scenery of Nnkahiva Bay I'.i CHAPTER XIV. Dp AnchorandofT for Tahiti -Low Arrhlpelago- Appe>iranco of Tahiti- Its Beanty-Papiete— Coral Reef and Transparency ol ihe Water- View from the Anchorage— Fruits and Shells— Moonlight Dances aboard— Barque Glimpse— French Soldiers - The Deserted Wife— Ma- tavia Bay— Contrast with the Past The day of <.'aptain Wallis' Arrival —To Honolulu lOl CONTKNTS. Vll cn.M'TKU XV. ^ lliiiiolnlii l''«li l^rccipicf — A Uiilciip tli« MoiiDliiin - Ktirnior ('imtoiiinry .Xiiliitiitioii Hoyiil Itdiiil A Hnwi-ry— I'liiiiitivf I, ivcry Stable l'luc«8 ut liiicrcHt l''ii(iiru of lliiwitii SiiKar IVdiliictiuii CliiricHc UfHtaiir- uiit Cliiti'iitUtsr ol° tliu NiillVfri KHiiiikii MailurH Kuw FiHh iiiiil I'oi — Kev. S. <), DiiiiKiii -MiHsioimry KITortH -DtnTuuMe of I'opiiliitinn- I)e- pai tiiru A \Vliiilo Ship in Di8tri'»» lO'.i fllAI'TKU XVI. VojHKi' ili'wn tlitf CoHHt li.i I'll/, I'l-url I'lvoi'H -Turtle- liiidicruiiH Inoi- iluiit (liiayiiius -A Nurrow Khcuih' Fruits. KIhIi Ac.,- J'elicans Mii/,- uIIhii 1)(i^'h lli-i)(t rriiuKiutiiry Witter SpciutM at Soa -AcitpulcoHKain - i^liock ut' Hii KitrtliiiuakH at night - 'I'lie Kxileil I'rcHidunt— An Aitil- Icry Kxt-rcine Sailiir»' ritiiitiiui'niM to nbtain Spirits An old Tar's MKlxid ot (iftting Drunk II. It. M . TtilUmaii Tlio IMiosphoroHi-ent Sea- Back to Ma/Htlan-off for (iuaynmH— Ship a Sea -Keturii to San KraiicUco lai (.'IIAI'TKR XVII. A Mutiny (»tT to Sea Sea-sick In a Gale -The Mouth ot the C'limul'ia llivor— I'ort Angulos A Trauedy at SealtlH-Olyrnpia l>riuk of Kero- sene t»il -Scenery of the Sound The "Noble Ued Man"- Matrimoniiil - Naniiinio, V. I.- llellinghani Itay Solitude Return 1,'il CHAl'TKB XVI II. Cruise Southward -Sea Gull's Power of Flight— Artillery Fight— Terrific Stoi hi at Night A Narrow Kscapo — Mazatlan— In Retlrenie,it— An Hceiin llerniitago December Weather in the Gulf— Return to Saa Francisco— Cyaiie and Yellow Fever Ill ( HAI'TFR XIX. Monterey- Whale Fishing In the Hay— .\ Dance on the Quarter-deck — "IJreakdown" at Sea -French Fleet at Mazatlan— (lur Snarleyow— He greets an .Vdniirai— Visit of (ien. Martii.o/.--Down to Acapulco 116 < IIAI'TKR XX. Firnt Lesson in Mexicin Military Discipline -Visit to the Castillo de San- tiago— ReH-'Ctions— Second Lessou in Military Discipline I.'')2 'i\ 4)1 \- \t CHAl'TKR XXI. Down the ('oH8t— Gulf of Foiiseca- Volcano of l^oseguina- La I'nlon-Visit of General Alejandro Cabreroand Priests— San Juan del Sur— Louis iind his Filllbu:a CIIAI'TKK XXill. 'I'hc Ii88t <'niln«) (Joud-liyo to richlliogiie Buy -Hloriny Vi : ;'jo— IIoiiip- wurd UuuuU -111 a( tliu Goldt'ii Uuiu 173 ILLUSTRATIONS. A CoKAii Rekk, Frontispiece Mid-Ocean Scene, Fating Page 41 First Arrival op the Dolphik, " " 105 Kamluameua, " 117 AFLOAT ON THE PACIFIC. CHAPTER I. Toyage to Aspinwall.— First view of tho Ocean.- Soa sickness.— Follow Pusstngurs— Canary Bird Concerts— Landsmen and Sailors— a I'reacli- er, A,^tor,and the "Dejected Lover"-Aniong the West Indies. |N October, 1864, a detachment of officers and men, including the writer, .sailed from New York to join the Pacific .squadron. We left the wharf at one o'clock P. M., aboard the Pacific JNIail Steamship Costa Rica, and got fairly to sea before night. As this was my first voyage, and indeed my first view of the ocean, I felt most vividly those impres- sions of its {i^raud sublimity which authors have so often in vain aitempted to describe. It would l)e use- less to try to convey, by any attemi)t at exact descrip- tion, the miugled sentiments and emotions that crowd upon the mind at such a time ; and I could not, if I wished, recall all the thoughts that came and went, as our steamer plunged along, farther and farther from the land that gradually faded from view in the m, 10 A FIRST VOYAGE. distance and the gathering gloom of night. There are often experiences in our lives, which for their ad- equate portrayal, demand a more perfect language than any with which, in this life, mortals are endow- ed ; and among those experiences may be counted a sudden introduction to the "vasty deep," in its awful and solitary grandeur. A first voyage, under any circumstances, has in it much that is indescribable. You may read voyages and study the descriptions given by travelers of their sensations and impressions, as much as you will, and after all you will form but an indistinct idea of the reality. There is a strange novelty in the transfer from terra firma to the uncertainty of your footing on the unstable liquid element, that makes you feel as if you had, body and soul, entered upon a new state of existence. You are isolated, not only from friends and familiar places and scenes, but from that life-long unconscious experience of solid land, which has almost become a part of yourself The ocean reminds you often and forcibly of Eternity. The conditions of existence are different from those on land, the vast- ness of the wide expanse of waters suggests the infin- itude of the future beyond life, and the mind in eith- er case is bewildered by the inconceivable. I spent the first hours on deck, absorbed in the view. Looking out over the white-capped \ avelets gleaming in the moonlight, I tried to take into con- ception the vastness of my new acquaintance, — the grand old ocean. In my imagination, at times, it seemed endowed with a personality of might and n ii SEASICK NEyS. 11 grandeur, so over-powerin