Recollections of the Revolution And the Empire From the French of the Journal
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As the cargo was composed solely of our twenty-five boxes or trunks, the boat rolled horribly. My maritime apprenticeship was very painful. We had agreed with the captain regarding our board, but he, as unfortunate as ourselves, had not been able to procure provisions other than those which had been furnished by the marine stores. At the time of our departure from Bordeaux, one of the four sailors had had a terrible fall from the top of the mast into the hold and was out of service. Only three ...sailors remained to manoeuvre the boat. The crew therefore consisted only of these three sailors, a cabin boy who acted as servant, the cap- tain, who was a young man without much experience, the mate, who like himself was from Nantucket, and an old sailor of much experience named Harper whom the captain consulted on every occasion. The captain had a little room which he occupied alone. He had given a cabin to my husband and to [ 179] RECOLLECTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION myself and another to Monsieur de Chambeau.
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