White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War
When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru—her last harbour in the Pacific—I found myself without a grego, or sailor\'s surtout; and as, toward the end of a three years\' cruise, no pea-jackets could be had from the purser\'s steward: and being bound for Cape Horn, some sort of a subst...