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Fall.—The Rapids from the Lovers' Seat.—American Cousins.-Roch-
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ROUND THE WORLD.

CHAPTER I.

DOWN CHANNEL.

At Gravesend.-Taking in Stores.-First Night on Board.-"The Anchor's up."-Off Brighton.-Change of Wind.—Gale in the Channel. --The Abandoned Ship.-The Eddystone.-Plymouth Harbor.-Departure from England.

20th February: At Gravesend.-My last farewells are over, my last adieus are waved to friends on shore, and I am alone on board the ship "Yorkshire," bound for Melbourne. Every thing is in confusion on board. The decks are littered with stores, vegetables, hen-coops, sheep-pens, and coils of rope. There is quite a little crowd of sailors round the capstan in front of the cabin door. Two officers, with lists before them, are calling over the names of men engaged to make up our complement of hands, and appointing them to their different watches.

Though the ship is advertised to sail this evening, the stores are by no means complete. The steward is getting in lots of cases; and what a quantity of pickles! Hens are coming up to fill the hen-coops. More sheep are being brought; there are many on board already; and here comes our milk-cow over the ship's side, gen

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