CHAPTER V 



HAVING a considerable portion of time 

 while at sea which, for want of em- 

 ployment, I have made use of for the pur- 

 pose of giving my family the outline of the 

 various incidents relative to my passage so 

 far in the world's voyage. 



In my early years, say from five to four- 

 teen, I was pretty generally kept at school 

 in town, where we were provided with ex- 

 cellent masters who taught us the common 

 branches, say arithmetic, writing, reading 

 and spelling. I studied the Latin Grammar 

 and Trigonometry and the Elements of 

 Navigation when fourteen years of age with 

 the Rev. Joseph McKeen, 1 who was after- 



1 Rev. Joseph McKeen, born in Londonderry, N. H., 

 Oct. 15, 1787. Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1774. 

 Taught school for several years. Ordained over lower 

 parish in Beverly May, 1785. President of Bowdoin 

 College Sept 2, 1803. Died July 15, 1807. 



