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and maintaining a proper discipline in 

 the ship, was a man somewhere about 

 thirty years of age, not tall, but very 

 stout, of a fine open countenance, and 

 with lungs that did not require a speak- 

 ing-trumpet to make his voice heard 

 either aloft or on board any strange 

 ship we had occasion to hail. He was 

 every inch a sailor ; and, from the straight- 

 forward, officer-like, and impartial man- 

 ner in which he carried on the duties 

 in all the various departments of the 

 ship, had obtained among the men the 

 soubriquet of "Honest Joe," though that 

 was not his baptismal name ; and to his 

 thorough knowledge of the service, as 

 well as to his proper way of treating men 

 who were their country's boast, may be 

 attributed the infrequency of corporeal 

 punishment among them. I remember 

 but one instance of it occurring during 

 our voyage out from Rio Janeiro, and 

 that was under peculiar circumstances. 



