FIRST SERIES.-No. 12.
BOOK OF THE SEA;
FOS THE INSTRUCTION OF
LITTLE SAILORS.
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BOOK OF THE SEA;
FOR THE INSTRUCTION Of
NEW YORK:
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LIKE prisoned eagles sailors pine
On the dull and quiet shore;
They long for the flashing brine,
The spray and the tempest's roar.
To shoot through sparkling foam,
Like an ocean bird set free
Like the ocean bird their home
They find on the raging sea. .
THE SAILOR,
SAILORS pass most of their
time on the water. They be-
come so used to living on the wa-
ter, that when they are on land
they sometimes do not know
what to do with themselves to
pass away their time. And af-
ter a few days or weeks they
are very glad to be on board
their snip again, and on the
wide, blue sea. Sailors are
kind and brave ; and if you are
kind to them they will do ev-
erything in their power to show
that they feel it, and will repay
it. They are a class of men
who are very much needed,
and do us great good by going
upon the sea, and risking their
lives in storms, to bring us the
good things of countries afar ofT.
They amuse one another on
long voyages by telling long
stories. This they call spin-
ning yarns.
THE SHIP.
THE ship is the largest kind
of vessel that sails upon the wa-
ter. It has three masts, made
of the trunks of pine trees, that
have pieses of timber called
yards put across them on which
we spread the sails. Ships are
used for long voyages, being of-
ten months out of sight of land-
THE BRIG.
THE brig is next in size to
the ship. It has but two masts
but is otherwise like a ship.
The ship and the brig are called
square-rigged vessels because
nearly every sail is square.
Like the ship, the brig too is
used mostly in long voyages.
SCHOONER AND SLOOP.
THE schooner has two masts,
and the sloop but one. The
sail is fastened at the bottom' to
a long stick, called the boom, to
the mast at the side, and to the
gaff at the top. The vessel in
the picture is a sloop.
THE SKIFF.
THE skiff is a small boat,
made of boards or thin planks.
It is used about rivers and on
ponds and lakes, and is pushed
through the water with a pad-
dle, like a canoe. The canoe
is made sometimes out of the
trunk of a tree, and sometimes
out of bark or skins.
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