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The books were the first to engage our notice. These
were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it)
"for a limejuicer." Scorn of the British mercantile
marine glows in the breast of every Yankee merchant
captain; as the scorn is not reciprocated, I can only
suppose it justified in fact; and certainly the Old
Country mariner appears of a less studious disposition.
The more credit to the officers of the FLYING SCUD,
who had quite a library, both literary and
professional. There were Findlay's five directories of
the world--all broken-backed, as is usual with Findlay,
and all marked and scribbled over with corrections and
additions,--several books of navigation, a signal-code,
and an Admiralty book of a sort of orange hue, called
ISLANDS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN, vol. iii.,
which appeared from its imprint to be the latest
authority, and showed marks of frequent consultation in
the passages about the French Frigate Shoals, the
Harman, Cure, Pearl, and Hermes Reefs, Lisiansky
Island, Ocean Island, and the place where we then lay--
Brooks or Midway.


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