THE WORLD OF (IGE.

 

CHAPTER I.

Some of the ‘dramatis persone: ” introduced—Retrospective glances— Causes
of future effects—Our hero’s early life at sea—A pirate—A terrible fight
and its consequences—Buzzby’s helm lashed amid-ships—A whaling-
cruise begun.

| OBODY ever caught John Buzzby asleep by any
| chance whatever. No weasel was ever half
so sensitive on that point as he was. Wherever he
happened to be (and in the course of his adventurous
life he had been to nearly all parts of the known
world) he was the first awake in the morning and the
last asleep at night ; he always answered promptly to
the first call; and was never known by any man living
to have been seen with his eyes shut, except when he
winked, and that operation he performed less fre-
quently than other men.

John Buzzby was an old salt-—a regular truc-blue
Jack tar of the old school, who had been born and
bred at sea; had visited foreign ports innumerable ;
had weathered more storms than he could count, and
had witnessed more strange sights than he could re-