TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST
A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea 

By Richard Henry Dana, Jr. 

With an introduction and notes by
Homer Eaton Keyes, B.L.
Assistant Professor of Art in Dartmouth College 

----Crowded in the rank and narrow ship,--
Housed on the wild sea with wild usages,--
Whate'er in the inland dales the land conceals
Of fair and exquisite, O! nothing, nothing,
Do we behold of that in our rude voyage.
Coleridge's Wallenstein. 

CONTENTS 

Introduction