June 6– From Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Dana (1840)
Summary: Guy has a nightmare, and the weather is bad.
Commentary: The incident in the reading guide snippet is about a guy screaming in the middle of the night. Everyone panics, until they realize he was just having a nightmare, not overboard. This is one of those things that's totally realistic, but hard to get away with in fiction (he'd have to wake up from his nightmare and have the giant shark leap onto the deck and eat him or something).
Aside from that, anything with this many almost incomprehensible nautical terms is right up my alley.
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