CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



CHAPTEE I 



A Novel Commencement — A London Coach-office — A Country 

 one — A Provincial Book-keeper — Lord Bacon — Shakspere 

 — Lord Byron — Inquisitiveness — An Important Confes- 

 sion — A Father — A Mother — A Prognostic — Alexander 

 Pope — The Itchen — A Scene in Hampshire — Gibbon — A 

 Popular Divine — A Tyrannical Pedagogue — An Instructor 

 of Youth — A Long Eide — A Hasty Decision . 



CHAPTEE II 



The Departure and Outfit — A Fourth-rate Man-of-War — 

 Captain, Officers, and Crew — Sea-sickness — -The Quarter- 

 deck- — The Cock-pit— An Accident — Lubbers' Hole — The 

 Schoolmaster — Midshipmen — Eio de Janeiro — An Extra- 

 ordinary Peat — A. False Alarm — The Captain's Table — A 

 Court-martial, Sentence, and Execution — Scenes in the 

 Gun-room and in the Captain's Cabin — A Pleasant Time 

 — The Middle Watch — Fore and Afternoon Watches — 

 The First Lieutenant — Corporal Punishment — The Haven 19 



CHAPTEE III 



Day-Dreams — The Shark and the Dolphin — Yarns — A Hard 

 Hit — The Armourer's Chest — Calcutta — The Marquis 

 Wellesley — The Eeturn — Madras — A Scene in the Water 

 — Trincomalee and Colombo — Bombay and Elephanta — 

 The Straits of Sumatra, and the Captain's Advice — China 

 Seas — A Typhoon — Canton — A Distinguished Naval 

 Officer — Parting — An Historical Comparison — An Agree- 

 able Shipmate — St. Helena — The Chops of the Channel — 

 The Pilot Boat — A Polite Eequest — The Landing — Senti- 

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