THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BATES
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A LONG LIFE ON SHIPBOARD
VOYAGES ON THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS,
THE BALTIC AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS;
ALSO
Imprisonment and Service on British warships. Long
Confinement in Dartmoor Prison, Early Experience in Reformatory Movements;
TRAVELS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD
1868
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
I
HAVE
frequently been solicited by relatives and friends to write a brief history of
my past life, but never felt seriously inclined to do so until the year 1858,
when I was requested by my friends in the West to furnish a series of articles
in relation to my past life, for a religious paper entitled,
The Youth's
Instructor, published
at Battle Creek, Mich. In compliance with their wishes, fifty-one numbers were
issued and published in said paper, ending in May, 1863.
As these numbers are about exhausted, we again comply with the
request of friends to furnish them, with additional numbers, for publication
in book form. JOSEPH BATES.
MONTEREY, MICH., MAY 1, 1868.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
INTRODUCTION.
L IFE
sketches of great and good men are given to the world for the benefit of
generations that follow them. Human life is more or less an experiment to all
who enter upon it. Hence the frequent remark that we need to live one life to
learn how to live.
To those who take along with them the lamp for their feet,
found in the experiences of those who have fought the good fight, and have
finished their course with joy, life is not altogether an experiment. The
general outlines of life, to say the least, are patterned by these from those
who have by the grace of God made themselves good, and noble, and truly great
in choosing and defending the right.
The life of Elder Joseph Bates was crowded with unselfish
motives and noble actions. That which makes his early history intensely
interesting to his personal friends is the fact that he became a devoted
follower of Christ, and a thorough practical reformer, and ripened into
glorious manhood a true Christian gentleman, while exposed to the evils of
sea-faring life, from the cabin-boy of 1807, to the wealthy retiring master of
1828, a period of twenty-one years.
James White
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