------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN. VOL. I. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _From a Photo_: _Joseph Brown_. ] THOMAS, TENTH EARL OF DUNDONALD, G.C.B. _Admiral of the Red, Rear Admiral of the Fleet &c._ London. Richard Bentley 1861. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN. BY THOMAS, TENTH EARL OF DUNDONALD, G.C.B. ADMIRAL OF THE RED, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET, ETC. ETC. [Illustration] VOLUME THE FIRST. =Second Edition.= LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, =Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.= 1861. _The right of translation is reserved._ TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER, BY WHOSE GENEROUS SUPPORT, NEARLY HALF A CENTURY AGO, I WAS RESCUED FROM DESPAIR, THE RESULT OF UNMERITED INJURIES INFLICTED BY HOSTILE POLITICAL FACTION IN RETALIATION FOR MY ADVOCACY OF NAVAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS; AND TO WHOSE HONOUR BE IT RECORDED THAT IN NO INSTANCE DURING OUR LONG POLITICAL CONNEXION DID ANY OF THEIR BODY EVER ASK ME TO PROCURE FOR HIM PLACE, BENEFIT, OR EMOLUMENT, =This Volume is Inscribed= BY THEIR FAITHFUL SERVANT, DUNDONALD. PREFACE.