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fcioii grown to be staunch and fearless sailors: they 

 could swear horribly; they chewed tobacco, to a 

 man; they talked loudly of their powers to with 

 stand the effects of liquor to have listened tG 

 them, one would have thought each one of them 

 had been bred and born in a grog-shop. They 

 could, to be sure, tell no tough yarns of their past 

 experience, but they made up abundantly for this 

 by their boastings of what they contemplated in 

 the future. In short, they were all with two 

 honorable exceptions a most disgusting set ; who 

 thought that in coming on board ship, as they re- 

 lieved themselves in a great measure from the 

 restraints of civilized life, they were warranted in 

 launching out into every vice that brutalizes man, 



