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by sea and land— of endeavouring to appreciate 

 their several characters and conduct, so uniformly 

 displayed in their unflinching perseverance in dif- 

 ficulties of no ordinary description — their patient 

 endurance of extreme suffering, borne without mur- 

 muring, and with an equanimity and fortitude of 

 mind under the most appalling distress, rarely if 

 ever equalled, and such as could only be supported 

 by a superior degree of moral courage and resio-- 

 nation to the Divine will — of displaying virtues like 

 these of no ordinary cast, and such as will not fail 

 to excite the sympathy and challenge the admira- 

 tion of every right-feeling reader— has been the 

 pleasing yet anxious object of the present volume. 



Officers such as are herein mentioned are sure 

 to create corresponding good seamen — by the esta- 

 blishment of regular discipline and good order 



by judicious employment to prevent idleness and 

 discontent — by allowing amusement and mirthful 

 hilarity to divert the mind from despondency — and 

 above all, by attention to their wants and to their 

 comforts — these are the means to inspire confi- 

 dence and obtain obedience ; and seamen so com- 

 manded and treated will never receive, because 



