ABSTRACT

Voyage to Kingston—Narrow escape from shipwreck—Serious accident—Dolphin fishing, and chowder—Author leaves the ship for another, and is consequently imprisoned—Flogging reprehended—Author compelled to return to the brig Grove—Return to England—Sea songs—Another voyage—Author’s destitution—Goes second mate of the Hall—Execution of a negro—Return voyage—Cod fishing—Another voyage—In danger of foundering—Loss of the shallop—Return to Liverpool—Author rewarded by the underwriters.