Outward Bound

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Title: Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat
Author: Oliver Optic
Release Date: May 27, 2005 [EBook #15920]
Language: English
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[Illustration: YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD
By OLIVER OPTIC
OUTWARD BOUND

BOSTON LEE & SHEPARD.]
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OUTWARD BOUND;
OR,
YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT.
A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE.
BY
WILLIAM T. ADAMS
(OLIVER OPTIC).
BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD.
1869.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by WILLIAM
T. ADAMS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
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TO GEORGE WEBSTER TERRILL
This Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
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YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD.
BY OLIVER OPTIC.
A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First and Second
Series; six volumes in each Series. 16mo. Illustrated.
First Series.
I. OUTWARD BOUND, OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT.
II. SHAMROCK AND THISTLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
III RED CROSS; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND
WALES.
IV. DIKES AND DITCHES; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND
AND BELGIUM.
V. PALACE AND COTTAGE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE
AND SWITZERLAND.
VI. DOWN THE RHINE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY.
Second Series.
I. UP THE BALTIC; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN DENMARK AND
SWEDEN.
II. NORTHERN LANDS; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN PRUSSIA AND
RUSSIA.
III. VINE AND OLIVE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN AND
PORTUGAL.
IV. SUNNY SHORES; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ITALY AND
AUSTRIA.

V. CROSS AND CRESCENT; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GREECE
AND TURKEY.
VI. ISLES OF THE SEA; OR, YOUNG AMERICA HOMEWARD
BOUND.
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PREFACE.
Outward Bound is the first volume of "A Library of Travel and
Adventure in Foreign Lands," and contains the voyage of the Academy
Ship "Young America" across the Atlantic. The origin and progress of
this aquatic institution are incidentally developed, and the plan is
respectfully submitted to the consideration of those who are interested
in the education and moral training of the class of young men who are
the characters in the scenes described in this work. Besides a full
description of the routine and discipline of the ship, as an educational
and reformatory institution, the volume contains a rather free exposé of
the follies and frailties of youth, but their vices are revealed to suggest
the remedy.
The story includes the experience of the officers and crew of the Young
America, eighty-seven in number, though, of course, only a few of
them can appear as prominent actors. As the ship has a little world,
with all the elements of good and evil, within her wooden walls, the
story of the individual will necessarily be interwoven with that of the
mass; and the history of "The Chain League," in the present volume, of
which Shuffles is the hero, will, it is hoped, convey an instructive
lesson to young men who are disposed to rebel against reasonable
discipline and authority. In the succeeding volumes of this series, the
adventures, travels, and "sight-seeing," as well as the individual and
collective experience of the juvenile crew of the Academy Ship, will be
narrated. They will visit the principal ports of Europe, as well as
penetrate to the interior; but they will always be American boys,
wherever they are.

The author hopes that the volumes of the series will not only be
instructive as a description of foreign lands, and interesting as a record
of juvenile exploits, but that they will convey correct views of moral
and social duties, and stimulate the young reader to their faithful
performance.
HARRISON SQUARE, MASS., November 2, 1866.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE IDEA SUGGESTED 11
II. THE YOUNG AMERICA 27
III. THE ENSIGN AT THE PEAK. 43
IV. OFFICERS AND SEAMEN. 59
V. OUR FELLOWS. 75
VI. THE FOURTH OF JULY. 91
VII. HEAVING THE LOG. 106
VIII. OUTWARD BOUND. 122
IX. THE WATCH BILL. 138
X. MAKING A CHAIN. 154
XI. THE GAMBLERS IN NO. 8. 170
XII. THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. 186

XIII. PIPING TO MISCHIEF. 202
XIV. ALL HANDS, REEF TOPSAILS! 218
XV. AFTER THE GALE. 233
XVI. THE WRECK OF THE SYLVIA 248
XVII. PEAS AND BEANS 263
XVIII. THE RESULT OF THE BALLOT 280
XIX. MAN OVERBOARD! 299
XX. THE END OF THE CHAIN