Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Two Years Before the MastRichard Henry Dana · 1840A Harvard student sails as a common seaman to California. Read Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana page by page and explore its network of 1,015…The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western 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 year 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 the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed…All books in the ECCE gallery