TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Footnote anchors are denoted by [number],and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book.
The warship USS Syren is referred to as Siren throughoutthe book (except for the title page); this has not been changed.
The cover image was created by the transcriberand is placed in the public domain.
Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
THE
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
WITH
NOTES AND QUERIES
Extra Number—No. 9
COMPRISING
THIRTY YEARS FROM HOME, OR A VOICE
FROM THE MAIN DECK: BEING THE
EXPERIENCE OF SAMUEL LEECH.
WILLIAM ABBATT
EAST 25th STREET, ⁂ ⁂ NEW YORK 
1909
THIS REPRESENTATION OF THE U. S. FRIGATE UNITED STATES, STEPHEN DECATUR ESQR COMMANDER,CAPTURING HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, JOHN S. CARDEN ESQ^R COMMANDER
Is respectfully inscribed to Captain Stephen Decatur his Officers and Gallant Crew by their devoted humble Servant
James Webster.
THIRTY YEARS FROM HOME
OR
A VOICE FROM THE
MAIN DECK
BEING THE EXPERIENCE OF
SAMUEL LEECH
WHO WAS FOR SIX YEARS IN THE BRITISH AND AMERICANNAVIES: WAS CAPTURED IN THE BRITISH FRIGATE MACEDONIAN:AFTERWARDS ENTERED THE AMERICAN NAVY,AND WAS TAKEN IN THE UNITED STATES BRIG SYREN, BYTHE BRITISH SHIP MEDWAY    ::     ::     ::     ::
BOSTON
PUBLISHED BY TAPPAN & DENNET
114 Washington Street
1843
NEW YORK
Reprinted
WILLIAM ABBATT
1909
(Being Extra No. 9 of The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries)
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PREFACE
I have often been solicited, by my personal friends, to committhe incidents of my life to paper. It was thought that they containedsufficient interest to command public attention. At any rate, thereis a novelty in the fact of an unlettered sailor’s appearance beforethe public, detailing the secrets of the naval Main Deck. TheQuarter Deck has long and often told its own story, and has givenits own coloring to naval life. Here, however, is a voice from themain deck, revealing life in a man of war as it appears to the sailorhimself. As such, this work has some claim on the attention of thepublic.
I have endeavored to state facts as they were when I was a sailor,and in the ships to which I belonged. My object is to give a truepicture. That, I have done, as far as a remarkably strong memoryenabled me. I kept no journals, and consequently some slight mistakesin names, dates and places, may be found in my book; but Ihave been careful to state nothing as facts, of which I was n                        
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