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COMMODORE R. F. STOCKTON.

United States Navy

DECK AND PORT;
OR,
INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE
IN THE
UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS
TO
CALIFORNIA.
WITH SKETCHES OF RIO JANEIRO, VALPARAISO, LIMA, HONOLULU, AND SAN FRANCISCO.

BY
REV. WALTER COLTON, U. S. N.,
AUTHOR OF “SHIP AND SHORE,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES & CO.,
NO. 51 JOHN-STREET.
CINCINNATI:—H. W. DERBY & CO.
1850.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and fifty,
By A. S. BARNES & COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Stereotyped by
RICHARD C. VALENTINE,
New York
F. C. GUTIERREZ, Printer,
No. 51 John-street, corner of Dutch.
TO
THOMAS I. WHARTON, ESQ.
OF PHILADELPHIA,
This Volume
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY HIS FRIEND
THE AUTHOR.
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PREFACE.

On joining the United States frigate Congress,fitting for sea, at Norfolk, and destinedto the Pacific, I commenced a journal, in whichI sketched down the incidents of each day, asthey occurred. It was more a whim of thehour, than any purpose connected with thepublic press. It was a diverting experimenton the monotony of a sea-life; was continuedbecause it had been begun—and the presentvolume is the result. The streamlet flowsfrom gathered drops.

I send it to the press as it was written, exceptthe division into chapters, which has beenmade at the suggestion of the publishers, whoperhaps, think the yarn will reel better if the6thread be broken. It undoubtedly containspassages which may seem light and irrelevant;but a diary has privileges, in this respect,which are not extended to compositions of agraver character. He who gathers what t

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