A SHORE EMPEROR ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR.
LVII. THE EMPEROR REVIEWS THE PEOPLE AT QUARTERS.
LVIII. A QUARTER-DECK OFFICER BEFORE THE MAST.
LIX. A MAN-OF-WAR BUTTON DIVIDES TWO BROTHERS.
LX. A MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN SHOT AT.
LXI. THE SURGEON OF THE FLEET.
LXII. A CONSULTATION OF MAN-OF-WAR SURGEONS.
LXIII. THE OPERATION.
LXIV. MAN-OF-WAR TROPHIES.
LXV. A MAN-OF-WAR RACE.
LXVI. FUN IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
LXVII. WHITE-JACKET ARRAIGNED AT THE MAST.
LXIII. A MAN-OF-WAR FOUNTAIN, AND OTHER THINGS.
LXIX. PRAYERS AT THE GUNS.
LXX. MONTHLY MUSTER ROUND THE CAPSTAN.
LXXI. THE GENEALOGY OF THE ARTICLES OF WAR.
LXXII. "HEREIN ARE THE GOOD ORDINANCES OF THE SEA, WHICH WISE MEN,
WHO VOYAGED ROUND THE WORLD, GAVE TO OUR ANCESTORS, AND
WHICH CONSTITUTE THE BOOKS OF THE SCIENCE OF GOOD CUSTOMS."
LXXIII. NIGHT AND DAY GAMBLING IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
LXXIV. THE MAIN-TOP AT NIGHT.
LXXV. "SINK, BURN, AND DESTROY."
LXXVI. THE CHAINS.
LXXVII. THE HOSPITAL IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
LXXVIII. DISMAL TIMES IN THE MESS.
LXXIX. HOW MAN-OF-WAR'S-MEN DIE AT SEA.
LXXX. THE LAST STITCH.
LXXXI. HOW THEY BURY A MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN AT SEA.
LXXXII. WHAT REMAINS OF A MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN AFTER HIS BURIAL AT SEA.
LXXXIII. A MAN-OF-WAR COLLEGE.
LXXXIV. MAN-OF-WAR BARBERS.
LXXXV. THE GREAT MASSACRE OF THE BEARDS.
LXXXVI. THE REBELS BROUGHT TO THE MAST.
LXXXVII. OLD USHANT AT THE GANGWAY.
LXXXVIII. FLOGGING THROUGH THE FLEET.
LXXXIX. THE SOCIAL STATE IN A MAN-OF-WAR.
XC. THE MANNING OF NAVIES.
XCI. SMOKING-CLUB IN A MAN-OF-WAR, WITH SCENES ON THE GUN-DECK
DRAWING NEAR HOME.
XCII. THE LAST OF THE JACKET.
XCIII. CABLE AND ANCHOR ALL CLEAR.

WHITE-JACKET.

CHAPTER I.

THE JACKET.

It was not a _very_ white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience,
as the sequel will show.

The way I came by it was this.

When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru--her last harbour
in the Pacific--I found myself without a _grego_, or sailor's surtout;
and as, toward the end of a three years' cruise, no pea-jackets could
be had from the purser's steward: and being bound for Cape Horn, some
sort of a substitute was indispensable; I employed myself, for several
days, in manufacturing an outlandish garment of my own devising, to
shelter me from