Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 430
nes, and crosses the gang-plank witha determination to make short work of the mys-teries of seamanship that await him. Here helearns how to read a log-line and to handle thelead-line that later he must heave while his shipis creeping through a heavy fog or in unchartedwaters. He is taught how to… … ON THE TARGET-RANGE. With a small fleet of cutters and launches andwhale-boats, the recruit begins the training thatfits him to handle them under sail and undercars, and strives to outdo the boats of other com-panies in making a clean landing at a dock, intossing oars in salute to a passing…
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