ABSTRACT
Frederick wrote John Hull a franker letter and warned him not to pass it along to their parents but to let their friend Charley read it (Charles Brace, a classmate of John's at college). He had been seasick the first weeks out. He had had a fall on deck. He had had rheumatism. At anchor off China, five months out of New York, the seamen, and among them the ap prentice officers, were not allowed off the ship for long weeks but could only gaze at the sticky, oozy mud shore and wish for freedom.
