...a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman’s complexion in the tropics. On the quarter-deck was one whom I took... ...quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight, and but little more than the ordinary pumping of a morning served to keep her free. But all this had not... ...t was quite plain that the captain stood in awe of him. So far as courage, seamanship, and a natural aptitude for keeping riotous spirits in subjectio... ...ocked hat and feather. In addition to these articles, they merely wore the ordinary costume of their race—a slip of native cloth about the loins. Ind... ...arboard watch, and the other for the larboard. By prescription, the oldest seaman in each claims the treat as his, and, accordingly, pours out the goo... ...ssened them. Unlike most of his countrymen, he was, if anything, below the ordinary height; but then, he was all compact, and un- der his swart, tatto... ...is attitude, the men, rejoiced at seeing him thus humbled, left him; after rating him, in sailor style, for a cannibal and a coward. Ben was attended ...

...f bricklayers, of all those who express their fundamental sentiment in the ordinary course of their activities, by the work of their hands. The work o... ...me. He has the knowledge of simple hearts. Long Tom Coffin is a monumental seaman with the individuality of life and the significance of a type. It is... ...ead when we have five minutes to spare, the usual hired books published by ordinary publish- ers, printed by ordinary printers, and censored (when the... ...rt, whose whole range of ideas, could they be investigated, would be found ordinary, if not base, because they have been adopted in compliance with so... ...r a period of probation and training I had imposed upon myself as ordinary seaman on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first... ...- ing out a deliberate plan of making out of myself, in the first place, a seaman worthy of the service, good enough to work by the side of the men wi... ...mp-trim- mer, mate, master, engineer, and also all through the innumerable ratings of the Navy up to that of Admi- ral, has done well. I don’t say mar...