...noon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in full sea rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years’ voyage, wh... ...hirt, a low crowned, well varnished black hat, worn on the back of the head, with half a fathom of black ribbon hanging over the left eye, and a pecu... ...nging over the left eye, and a peculiar tie to the black silk neckerchief, with sundry other minutiae, are signs, the want of which betray the beg... ...d out, with an exclamation more common among foreigners than with us ’’Oh, Jesus Christ! Oh, Jesus Christ!’’ ‘‘Don’t call on Jesus Christ,’’ sh... ...in; ‘‘he can’t help you. Call on Captain T——, he’s the man! He can help you! Jesus Christ can’t help you now!’’ At these words, which I never sha... ...rly a year, and got the first rough and tumble of a sea life. She, too, was associated, in my mind with Boston, the wharf from which we sailed, anch... ...y first home in the new world into which I had entered—and with which I had associated so many things,—my first leaving home, my first crossing the ... ...hroughout its continuance. It only remains for me now to speak of the associated public efforts which have been making of late years for the go... ...me some ten years before; and two more Senators from southern California, relics of another age,—Don Andres Pico, from San Diego; and Don Pablo de ...

...n coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of th...