South Seas: An Affair in the South Seas

A great romantic action adventure in the south seas!Excerpt from book:
'In affair in tljc Sautlj CHAPTER III. ALONG THE WHARVES. OF the conflicting thoughts that raged in my mind the entire day following my trip to the Seal Rock House, I cannot tell at length. There were bills to pay and disagreeable clients to deal with; over their affairs I exhausted my patience and lowered my energies, without materially increasing my store of money,--and finally a growing sense of dissatisfaction with my place in the world made me restless and sad. I went to the Mission Wharf, the next day, to see the Rosalie and witness the spectacle of sailor-men and hopeful colonists getting ready for their sea trip. As I walked along the water-front and viewed the cosmopolitan company of deep-water vessels, I realized for the first time the magnitude and variety of San Francisco's growing ocean commerce; the sight of great four-masted ships,' ocean steamers, island schooners, brigs, tugs, barkentines, and many varieties of yachts and barges, revealed a pleasing glimpse of the sea trade; and when I heard old tars bawling their commands with voices like megaphones, and saw every fellow tugging manfully at his task, I contrasted their happy activity and primitive habits with my own life of melancholy waiting for clients; and the primal desire that drives men to action stirred me until I felt the throbbing of that spirit which has made the Anglo-Saxon a creature of deeds. I had not gone far before I was seized with a strange desire to exchange my Micawber habits for a life of action. Inthis thought I hastened to the dock, thrilled by the sight of every mast and sail in the harbor. It was about eight o'clock when I reached the busy wharf, and the morning was glorious. Even old hulks took on a youthfulaffair in tfje Snutl) appearance, transformed by the freshne...