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Updated: May 3, 2025

Now, some weeks prior to the Neversink's sailing from home nearly three years before the time here spoken of some of the seamen had clubbed together, and made up a considerable purse, for the purpose of purchasing a theatrical outfit having in view to diversify the monotony of lying in foreign harbours for weeks together, by an occasional display on the boards though if ever there w-as a continual theatre in the world, playing by night and by day, and without intervals between the acts, a man-of-war is that theatre, and her planks are the boards indeed.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War