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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...do! They must be regular Yahoos. And do you suppose, Sergeant Dunham, that I can find one island out of a thousand, without knowing its name or its position--without even a course or a distance? " "As for the name, brother Cap, you need not be particular, for not one of the whole thousand has a name, and so a mistake can never be made on that score. As for the position, never having been there myself, I can tell you nothing about it, nor do I think its position of any particular consequence, provided we find the spot. Perhaps one of the hands on deck can tell us the way." " Hold on, sergeant--hold on a moment, if you please, Sergeant Dunham. If I am to command this craft, it must be done, if you please, without holding any councils of war with the cook and cabin-boy. A shipmaster is a shipmaster, and he must have an opinion of his own, even if it be a wrong one. I suppose you know service well enough to understand that it is better in a commander to go wrong than to go nowhere. At all events, the Lord High Admiral couldn't command a yawl with dignity, if he consulted the coxswain every time he wished to go ashore. No, sir, if I sink, I sink; but d e, I 'll go down ship-shape and with dignity." "But, brother Cap, I have no wish to go down anywhere, unless it be to the station among the Thousand Islands, whither we are bound." "Well, well, sergeant, rather than ask advice, that is, direct, barefaced advice, of a foremast hand, or any other than a quarter-deck officer, I would go round to the whole thousand and examine them one by one, until we got the right haven. But there is such a thing as coming at an opinion without manifesting ignorance, and I will manage to rowse all there is out of these hands, and make them think, all the while,...
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a famed nineteenth century American author known for his work in fiction particularly sea stories and historical novels and politics. He enrolled in Yale University, never earned a degree but later joined the United States Navy. Some of his most famous works include Last of the Mohicans, A Letter to my Countymen, and Ned Myers' or A Life before the Mast.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230265872
- ISBN 13 9781230265872
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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