An Old Book About Seafaring

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Angus Phillip, A True Adventure at Sea and on Shore. Wall Street Journal, Mar
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704506004576174323361155478.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8
(About the book Richard Henry Dana Jr, Two Years Before the Mast. 1840)

Note:
(a) forecastle (n):
"1: the forward part of the upper deck of a ship
2: the crew's quarters usually in a ship's bow"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com, except (f) and (i).
(b) The slug in "working slugs" (n): "SLUGGARD"

The latter is defined as "a habitually lazy person."
(c) landlubber (n): "LANDSMAN"

The latter is defined as "a person who lives on the land; especially : one who knows little or nothing of the sea or seamanship."
(d) bowline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowline
(a type of knot; section 1 History)
(e) blowhole (anatomy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(biology)
(the hole at the top of a cetacean's head through which the animal breathes air)
(f) sea dog (n):
"1. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
2. harbor seal"
Random House dictinary
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sea+dog
(g) free-climb (vt, vi): "to climb (as a rock face) without using aids for support"
(h) footrope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footrope
(i) pulling boat (n): "a boat propelled by oars alone"
Random House dictinary
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pulling+boat
(j) fall in with: "to begin associating with <she fell in with a bad crowd>"
(k) maintop (n): "a platform about the head of the mainmast of a square-rigged ship"
(l) Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana,_Jr.
(1815-1882; On August 14, 1834 he departed Boston aboard the brig Pilgrim bound for Alta California, at that time still a part of Mexico; on September 22, 1836, Dana arrived back in Massachusetts; He thereupon enrolled at Harvard Law School. He graduated from there in 1837./
Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves)

The review was incorrect in paragraph 1: "when he set off from Boston as an ordinary seaman in 1835 on the brig Pilgrim, bound for California via Cape Horn."  1834.

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