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<Text id=MelRedb> 
<Author>Melville, Herman</Author> 
<Title>Redburn, His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service</Title> 
<Edition>Redburn, His First Voyage; White-Jacket, or, The World in a Man-of-War; Moby-Dick, or, The Whale.  G. Thomas Tanselle, ed.  Library of America.  New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., Inc., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1849</Date> 
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<loc><locdoc>MelRedb2</locdoc><milestone n=2>                      TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER 
<div0 type=chapter n=1> 

 
<p>                             THOMAS MELVILLE 
<p>                     Now a Sailor on a Voyage to China 
<p>                          THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED 
 
 
<i>Chapter 1</i> How Wellingborough Redburn's Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him 
 
<p>Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose 
you take this shooting-jacket of mine along; it's just the 
thing -- take it, it will save the expense of another.  You 
see, it . . .