Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

This book is a non-fictional travel adventure novel by the American sailor and journalist John Sherburne Sleeper. Using the pen name Hawser Martingale, he writes this book about his own travels and the adventures he had for eight years in his early life between the years 1809 and 1817. It offers a good view of life at sea, the character of sailors and the struggles that they experience and the moral and physical dangers that beset him.