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Next to being captain of her, first mate is the most enviable situation in the world.

To this Philip consented, and then went down to visit the Vrow Katerina, the ship to which he had been appointed as first mate.

We are all of us more apt to learn what is bad than what is good I have mentioned Captain Tooke and our first mate.

He had been to sea as first mate, but lost the berth through his besetting sin.

The captain walked up and down the deck with the first mate, rubbing his hands as he watched the full sails, and the water gleaming past her sides.

And he waved his sharp yataghan before the first mate's eyes in a way which he did not at all relish, although he took the hint as it was intended.

And you shall be my first mate," said Alvin.

Haswell, then, went over as first mate to Gray.

By the time he is twenty-four he is a first mate on the coal boats.

Woodruff, Kendrick's first mate, had been with Cook.

The first mate would quit, or be promoted or drowned, or get drunk; and then his shoes would be waiting for Matt tried and true, and the holder of a first mate's ticket.

So, you're a first mate of sail, for any ocean and any tonnage, eh?

Before the Windsor Castle was ready to sail, the remains of Mr Williams were consigned to the burying-ground at Diamond Harbour, and Newton Forster was promoted to the rank of first mate of the Windsor Castle.

I only wish, for your sake, that it was that of first mate.

My doing duty as first mate," answered the son.

It don't suit a young fellow who has got to do duty as first mate of his father's brig and push his way in the world as a seaman.

Am I not a first mate with a handsome salary?

It is absurd to call me first mate of the Sunshine.

The old captain never went to sea that Robie Foster did not go as first mate.

But I reckon my first mate, Simmons, can do it, if any one can.

And a blessed day it was when I came to be first mate of this jail-ship; though I never thought to see the old captain's bonnie bird among my boarders.

And thus it was: One morning when I came upon deck I saw several of the passengers, together with the captain and the first mate, standing at the lee side of the ship and looking out forward, Captain Croker with a glass to his eye.

I being in my cabin at the time, comes Mr. Langely, my first mate, with the strange news that the lookout had sighted a vessel over the point of land to the southward.

I turned and beckoned my first mate to me.

My name is Gibney, sir, an' I hold an unlimited license as first mate of sail or steam.

That was only about a month ago, and now I'm first mate.

I shouldn't think mine would be too fine for a first mate.

I expect it will be a long time, though, before I get another job as first mate, or any other kind of a job that will be worth having.

I'm not going to crawl under any man's feet, first mate or no first mate!

To this Philip consented, and then went down to visit the Vrow Katerina, the ship to which he had been appointed as first mate.

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