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Updated: June 15, 2025
Imagine her feelings when, upon opening the box to feast her eyes on her contraband treasures, she found it to contain nothing but waste paper! I suspect that the sweetheart of one of our Filipino cabin-boys is now wearing a hat fairly smothered in bird-of-paradise plumes. The Bugis' love of the sea has given them almost a monopoly of the trade around Celebes.
And it was not till John Broom had learned ship's language that he found out that Davy's Locker meant the deep, and that the other cabin-boys were dead. "And as they'd nobody belonging to 'em, no hearts was broke," added the sailor, winking with his one eye. John Broom slept standing sometimes for weariness, but he did not sleep in Davy's Locker.
The cabin-boys amuse themselves with cutting off a part of the pectoral fins, and assert, that these wings grow again; which seems to me not unlikely, from facts observed in other families of fishes. At the time I left Paris, experiments made at Jamaica by Dr.
Minister Adams had no friend in the Senate; he could hope for no favors, and he asked none. He thought it right to play the adventurer as his father and grandfather had done before him, without a murmur. This was a lofty view, and for him answered his objects, but it bore hard on cabin-boys, and when, in time, the young man realized what had happened, he felt it as a betrayal.
Weldon, clasping Jack in her arms, "you shall learn to steer, and I am sure that while you are at the helm we shall have good winds." "Very sure very sure. Mother, I promise it to you," replied the little boy, clapping his hands. "Yes," said the young novice, smiling, "good cabin-boys know how to maintain good winds. That is well known by old sailors."
At dinner each night he played in the great cabin, while the captain drank his wine. The crew, or mariners, were divided into able seamen, ordinary seamen, grummets, or cabin-boys, ship-boys and swabbers. Swabbers were the weakest men of the crew; men, who were useless aloft, or at the guns, and therefore set to menial and dirty duties.
They are often spoken of as captains' servants or cabin-boys, signifying that they were berthed and messed in the cabin not that they had of necessity menial duties to perform. An allowance of table-money was first established to the flag-officers; a Surgeon-General to the fleet was also first appointed by warrant from the Lord High Admiral.
I have some stories about cabin-boys who were not much older than I." "Let us hope that your friend Fred won't go away," said Giselle. "But why do you wish to be a cabinboy?" "Because I want to go away with him, if he does not stay here because I like him," answered Enguerrand in a tone of decision. Hereupon Giselle kissed her boy with more than usual tenderness.
In addition to these men with their assistants, to whom the well-being of that tremendous floating household was entrusted, there were, of course, a number of sailors, stewards, stewardesses, workers in the kitchen, and so on, besides two cabin-boys and a nurse. There was also an officer in charge of the mail on board.
It soon became clear that Mrs. Higgman knew the whole situation, for one day she said to Cissie in her odd dialect, burred with Yankeeish "r's" and "ing's." "These river-r towns, Mrs. Siner-r, are jest like one big village, with the river-r for its Main Street. I know ever-r'thang that goes on, through the cabin-boys an' cooks, an' an' you cerrtainly ar-re a dear- r, Mrs.
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