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Title: An Old Sailor's Yarns

Author: Nathaniel Ames

Release Date: July 5, 2009 [EBook #29323]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

There is some arcane and inconsistent spelling. The dialect, spelling
and punctuation have been preserved as far as possible.

Obvious typographical errors have been altered, for example where a word
was duplicated or a letter duplicated around a hyphen. Hyphenations have
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AN

OLD SAILOR'S YARNS.

BY

N. AMES.

AUTHOR OF "MARINER'S SKETCHES,"
&c. &c. &c.

Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem.

_Virgil._

NEW YORK: GEORGE DEARBORN, 38 GOLD STREET.

MDCCCXXXV.

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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by
GEORGE DEARBORN, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the
United States, for the Southern District of New York.

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WILLIAM VAN NORDEN, PRINT.

CONTENTS.

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MARY BOWLINE. . . . . . . 15

OLD CUFF . . . . . . . . . . 53

RIVALS . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

MORTON . . . . . . . . . . . 95

PIRATE OF MASAFUERO . . 329

PREFACE.

Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautic