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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED. Which is the one and which the other? the reader may ask as he looks at the cut. This represents a scene Old Ironside witnessed one day when he went on shore to attend upon the Captain, Captain Bill Bluff, as he was called. You may read the story, and then apply the terms at the head of the chapter, if you can ascertain to which party they respectively belong. It was quite customary for the master and officers of the Vulture to employ Old Ironside, when any thing was to be done on shore, or in any place where liquor was to be obtained; because he-ijtvas almost the only one of the crew, whom they, felt that they could trust. Besides, that he was temperate in his habits even to the strictness of modern abstinence, they knew that the in tegrity of his character was such that they 4;'.: ' might place in him the most unlimited confidence. One day, as I tcld you above, he was sent on shore to attend the Captain. After he had received his orders from the first officer, he jumped into an Indian canoe alongside, and the natives paddled along, while Old Ironside stood erect and balanced himself on the stem of the canoe, till he drew near the land. He did not wait for the little vessel to touch the shore, but as she approached it he leapt, it might be a dozen feet to the beach, and then hastened on towards the captain's residence. Perhaps the reader would like to know what sort of a residence that was, and I will try to describe it to him as nearly as I can. But in the first place, when I speak of a house, you are not to suppose I mean a mass of brick and mortar, three or four stories high, with slated roof, glass windows, and pannelled doors. You must not even picture to yourself such wooden tenements as are common in the country in our ...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED. Which is the one and which the other? the reader may ask as he looks at the cut. This represents a scene Old Ironside witnessed one day when he went on shore to attend upon the Captain, Captain Bill Bluff, as he was called. You may read the story, and then apply the terms at the head of the chapter, if you can ascertain to which party they respectively belong. It was quite customary for the master and officers of the Vulture to employ Old Ironside, when any thing was to be done on shore, or in any place where liquor was to be obtained; because he-ijtvas almost the only one of the crew, whom they, felt that they could trust. Besides, that he was temperate in his habits even to the strictness of modern abstinence, they knew that the in tegrity of his character was such that they 4;'.: ' might place in him the most unlimited confidence. One day, as I tcld you above, he was sent on shore to attend the Captain. After he had received his orders from the first officer, he jumped into an Indian canoe alongside, and the natives paddled along, while Old Ironside stood erect and balanced himself on the stem of the canoe, till he drew near the land. He did not wait for the little vessel to touch the shore, but as she approached it he leapt, it might be a dozen feet to the beach, and then hastened on towards the captain's residence. Perhaps the reader would like to know what sort of a residence that was, and I will try to describe it to him as nearly as I can. But in the first place, when I speak of a house, you are not to suppose I mean a mass of brick and mortar, three or four stories high, with slated roof, glass windows, and pannelled doors. You must not even picture to yourself such wooden tenements as are common in the country in our ...