Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-04-29
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THE OCEAN WANDERER;

In which the author depicts in graphic style, the Start
ling Scenes and Romantic Adventures OF Life as Sailor
before Mast. The narrative OF the sOcEAS WAN
DERER is bold but truthful picture of the most Excl
ting Incidents in every quarter Of the Globe, in which
portrayed the chvalry daring, freaks foles and
superstons of the Sailor together with the tyrannes
and brualities to which he is often subjected by
the officers who command vessels. Some Of these
scenes develope a refinement of cruelty and syste
matte torture that cannot fail to send chill of horror
through every civilized community This is the dark
side of the picture "a Life on the Ocean" has its
sunshine we'll its storms-ts pleasures well
its pains-and the author has happily and forci-
bly, presented these various phases Of life the great
deep, in the progress Of the ''OCEAN WASDERER."
The descriptions of the and customs Of the
Natives of the far-or Isles of the Sea- among whom
the author passed portion Of his Eventful Life,
full of interest. He carries the reader through
the delightful groves where the banana and cocoanut
grow-and takes him far away into the solitary
forests of Tropical fruit which only be found
in the Isles of that cline where summer reigns
nal''-passing rapid succession before his mental
vision panorama of the most gorgeous Pictures in
the world Amid this delightful scenery after all
hope of gazing the glorious stars and stripes
Of his native Land, seeing the friends of his child
hood again, the author makes discovery Of the
startling character which changes the whole
of his adventurous career. '.THE OCEAN wANDERER
finds himself at home among the natives"
There is reckless daring in the life Of the Sailor
which is unaccountabe. He pursues his perilous call
ing with infatuation which amounts dolatry. 1t
is this spirit which carries commerce 10 the
mote quarters Of the globe-whch whitens the ocean
with the sails of the merchantmen, and unfolds the
flags of all maritime nations in every port Of the known
world. This daring and adventurous in the char
Of the Sailor leads explorations far into the
icy regions Of the North where eternal Winter regns
or brings to the knowledge Of the world the myster
les of the tropics. When perverted, this strange
fauation its victim enlist under the black flag
of the Pirate who lies in wait the great highway
Of the for his deenceless prey The author Of
the 'ocEAN wASDEREE' takes the reader through
phase of the Life Of the Sailor romance delights
peris and temptations, and on shore.
Young mani before you leave the comforts OF quiet
home shore for a life the great deep, read the
Adventures of the "OcEAN w.,NDEEER -
Fond motherl before you consgn your darling boy
the tender merces of the yrants Of the sea- read
the experiences Of the ''ocEAN VANDERBILT
| Fair maidenl before you consent TO a separation
from your lover for long voyage at sea, to enable
him to earn the means Of making you comfortable
and happy read the Life Of the OCEAN wANDERrT -
| Count well the cost before the fatal rubicon is
| passed.
How many gallant ships have left ports, never
to be heard of again-leavng those who had friends
board watch long and anxiousy for tdings of the
| missing vessel, while she perhaps rent into a
| thousand pieces by the hurricane, typhoon some
treacherous reef in the sea-and her passen-
gers and crew enguiphed in the ocean depths! While
fond hearts living in the earnest yet vain hope
that absent friends would return home again perhaps
their bones bleaching in the of the great
deep In these terrible disasters some spared from
sudden death undergo the horrors Of starvation and
delirum the fragments of the wreck, while others
cast some barren and unacceptable island end
their days among savages, or in a terrible solitude
where human foot had trod, and VIII ere no
human voice was ever heardl The author of the
.'OGAS wANDEER" wildly brings before his reader
some OF these startling adventures and terrible real
ties
Many good ship, after having been plundercd-her
crew and passengers butchered-has been scuttled
and the bottom of the by the Frecboot-
er, whose terrible motto is: "Dead men tell no taes'
In this connection the ocean wANpERER gives the ad
of the daughter of Of the merchant prime
es, whose ships were ON every sea, which cannot fail
to excite the most intense interest Wen may bc
said that "mere Fiction pales before the lights and
shades Of Reality when venture out the bos-
ON Of the great deep
The adventures Of the "OcE,N wANDERER" while
they possess all the attractions Of work Of fiction
cannot fail to be widely read than any mere
creation Of the imagination. The author has partici
psted in the events and scenes he describes The in
eidenis and adventures condensed in this work would
have furnished the hord with material for
half novels, but the author has chosen rather
To tell just what he saw, emitting unimportant
events and grouping only those incidents which have
an important connection in the or the OCEAN
WANDEHH" II this narrative imparts but half the
interest the general reader, produced by the read
ing OF the manuscript, IL viii create greater
than any work Of is class published in many
years
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