Sailing Alone Around the World
Captain Joshua Slocum
Illustrated by
Thomas Fogarty and George Varian
New York: The Century Company, 1900
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TO THE ONE WHO SAID:
"THE 'Spray' WILL COME BACK."
- Chapter I
--
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities
--Youthful fondness for the sea --Master of the
ship Northern Light --Loss of the
Aquidneck --Return home from Brazil
in the canoe Liberdade --The gift of
a "ship"--The rebuilding of the
Spray --Conundrums in regard to
finance and calking --The launching of the
Spray
- Chapter II
--
Failure as a fisherman --A voyage around the world
projected --From Boston to Gloucester --Fitting
out for the ocean voyage --Half of a dory for a
ship's boat --The run from Gloucester to Nova
Scotia --A shaking up in home waters --Among old
friends
- Chapter III
-- Good-by
to the American coast --Off Sable Island in a fog
--In the open sea --The man in the moon takes an
interest in the voyage --The first fit of
loneliness --The Spray encounters
La Vaguisa --A bottle of wine from
the Spaniard --A bout of words with the captain of
the Java --The steamship
Olympia spoken --Arrival at the
Azores
- Chapter IV
-- Squally
weather in the Azores --High living --Delirious
from cheese and plums --The pilot of the
Pinta --At Gibraltar --Compliments
exchanged with the British navy --A picnic on the
Morocco shore
- Chapter V
-- Sailing
from Gibraltar with the assistance of her
Majesty's tug --The Spray's course
changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn --Chased
by a Moorish pirate --A comparison with Columbus
--The Canary Islands --The Cape Verde Islands
--Sea life --Arrival at Pernambuco --A bill
against the Brazilian government --Preparing for
the stormy weather of the cape
- Chapter VI
-- Departure
from Rio de Janeiro --The Spray
ashore on the sands of Uruguay --A narrow escape
from shipwreck --The boy who found a sloop --The
Spray floated but somewhat damaged
--Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado
--A warm greeting at Montevideo --An excursion to
Buenos Aires --Shortening the mast and bowsprit
- Chapter VII
-- Weighing
anchor at Buenos Aires --An outburst of emotion at
the mouth of the Plate --Submerged by a great wave
--A stormy entrance to the strait --Captain
Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks
--Off Cape Froward --Chased by Indians from
Fortescue Bay --A miss-shot for "Black
Pedro" --Taking in supplies of wood and water
at Three Island Cove --Animal life
- Chapter VIII
-- From
Cape Pillar into the Pacific --Driven by a tempest
toward Cape Horn --Captain Slocum's greatest sea
adventure --Reaching the strait again by way of
Cockburn Channel --Some savages find the
carpet-tacks --Danger from firebrands --A series
of fierce williwaws --Again sailing westward
- Chapter IX
-- Repairing
the Spray's sails --Savages and an
obstreperous anchor --A spider-fight --An
encounter with Black
Pedro --A visit to the steamship
Colombia --On the defensive against a
fleet of canoes --A record of voyages through the
strait --A chance cargo of tallow
- Chapter X
-- Running to
Port Angosto in a snow-storm --A defective
sheet-rope places the Spray in peril
--The Spray as a target for a Fuegian
arrow --The island of Alan Erric --Again in the
open Pacific --The run to the island of Juan
Fernandez --An absentee king --At Robinson
Crusoe's anchorage
- Chapter XI
-- The
islanders of Juan Fernandez entertained with
Yankee doughnuts --The beauties of Robinson
Crusoe's realm --The mountain monument to
Alexander Selkirk --Robinson Crusoe's cave --A
stroll with the children of the island --Westward
ho! with a friendly gale --A month's free sailing
with the Southern Cross and the sun for guides
--Sighting the Marquesas --Experience in reckoning
- Chapter XII
--
Seventy-two days without a port --Whales and birds
--A peep into the Spray's galley
--Flying-fish for breakfast --A welcome at Apia
--A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson --At
Vailima --Samoan hospitality --Arrested for fast
riding --An amusing merry-go-round --Teachers and
pupils of Papauta College --At the mercy of
sea-nymphs
- Chapter XIII
-- Samoan
royalty --King Malietoa --Good-by to friends at
Vailima --Leaving Fiji to the south --Arrival at
Newcastle, Australia --The yachts of Sydney --A
ducking on the Spray --Commodore Foy
presents the sloop with a new suit of sails --On
to Melbourne --A shark that proved to be valuable
--A change of course --The "Rain of
Blood" --In Tasmania
- Chapter XIV
-- A
testimonial from a lady --Cruising round Tasmania
--The skipper delivers his first lecture on the
voyage --Abundant provisions --An inspection of
the Spray for safety at Devonport
--Again at Sydney --Northward bound for Torres
Strait --An amateur shipwreck --Friends on the
Australian coast --Perils of a coral sea
- Chapter XV
-- Arrival
at Port Denison, Queensland --A lecture
--Reminiscences of Captain Cook --Lecturing for
charity at Cooktown --A happy escape from a coral
reef --Home Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island
--An American pearl-fisherman --Jubilee at
Thursday Island --A new ensign for the
Spray --Booby Island --Across the
Indian Ocean --Christmas Island
- Chapter XVI
-- A call
for careful navigation --Three hours' steering in
twenty-three days --Arrival at the Keeling Cocos
Islands --A curious chapter of social history --A
welcome from the children of the islands
--Cleaning and painting the Spray on
the beach --A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam
--Keeling as a paradise --A risky adventure in a
small boat --Away to Rodriguez --Taken for
Anti-christ --The governor calms the fears of the
people --A lecture --A convent in the hills
- Chapter XVII
-- A clean
bill of health at Mauritius --Sailing the voyage
over again in the opera-house --A newly discovered
plant named in honor of the Spray's
skipper --A party of young ladies out for a sail
--A bivouac on deck --A warm reception at Durban
--A friendly cross-examination by Henry M. Stanley
--Three wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of
the earth --Leaving South Africa
- Chapter XVIII
--
Rounding the "Cape of Storms" in olden
time --A rough Christmas --The Spray
ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town --A
railway trip to the Transvaal --President Kruger's
odd definition of the Spray's voyage
--His terse sayings --Distinguished guests on the
Spray --Cocoanut fiber as a padlock
--Courtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navy
--Off for St. Helena --Land in sight
- Chapter XIX
-- In the
isle of Napoleon's exile --Two lectures --A guest
in the ghost-room at Plantation House --An
excursion to historic Longwood --Coffee in the
husk, and a goat to shell it --The
Spray's ill luck with animals --A
prejudice against small dogs --A rat, the Boston
spider, and the cannibal cricket --Ascension
Island
- Chapter XX
-- In the
favoring current off Cape St. Roque, Brazil --All
at sea regarding the Spanish-American war --An
exchange of signals with the battle-ship
Oregon --Off Dreyfus's prison on
Devil's Island --Reappearance to the
Spray of the north star --The light
on Trinidad --A charming introduction to Grenada
--Talks to friendly auditors
- Chapter XXI
-- Clearing
for home --In the calm belt --A sea covered with
sargasso --The jibstay parts in a gale --Welcomed
by a tornado off Fire Island --A change of plan
--Arrival at Newport --End of a cruise of over
forty-six thousand miles --The Spray
again at Fairhaven
- Appendix
-- Lines and
sail-plan of the "Spray" --
Her pedigree so far as known --The lines of the
Spray --Her self-steering qualities
--Sail-plan and steering-gear --An unprecedented
feat --A final word of cheer to would-be
navigators
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The "Spray" --Frontispiece
--From a photograph taken in Australian waters.
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The "Northern Light," Captain
Joshua Slocum, bound for Liverpool, 1885
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Cross-section of the "Spray"
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"It'll crawl"
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"No dorg nor no cat"
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The deacon's dream
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Captain Slocum's chronometer
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"Good evening, sir"
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He also sent his card
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Chart of the "Spray's" course around
the world -- April 24, 1895, to July 3, 1898
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The island of Pico
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Chart of the "Spray's" Atlantic
voyages from Boston to Gibraltar, thence to the
Strait of Magellan, in 1895, and finally homeward
bound from the Cape of Good Hope in 1898
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The apparition at the wheel
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Coming to anchor at Gibraltar
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The "Spray" at anchor off Gibraltar
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Chased by pirates
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I suddenly remembered that I could not swim
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A double surprise
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At the Sign of the Comet
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A great wave off the Patagonian coast
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Entrance to the Strait of Magellan
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The course of the "Spray" through
the Strait of Magellan
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The man who wouldn't ship without another
"mon and a doog"
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A Fuegian girl
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Looking west from Fortescue Bay, where the
"Spray" was chased by Indians
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A brush with Fuegians
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A bit of friendly assistance
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Cape Pillar
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They howled like a pack of hounds
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A glimpse of Sandy Point (Punta Arenas) in the
Strait of Magellan
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"Yammerschooner!"
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A contrast in lighting -- the electric lights
of the "Colombia" and the canoe fires of
the Fortescue Indians
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Records of passages through the Strait at the
head of Borgia Bay
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Salving wreckage
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The first shot uncovered three Fuegians
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The "Spray" approaching Juan
Fernandez, Robinson Crusoe's Island
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The house of the king
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Robinson Crusoe's cave
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The man who called a cabra a goat
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Meeting with the whale
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First exchange of courtesies in Samoa
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Vailima, the home of Robert Louis Stevenson
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The "Spray's" course from Australia
to South Africa
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The accident at Sydney
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Captain Slocum working the "Spray"
out of the Yarrow River, a part of Melbourne
Harbor
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The shark on the deck of the "Spray"
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On board at St. Kilda. retracing on the chart
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The "Spray" in her port duster at
Devonport, Tasmania, February 22, 1897
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"Is it a-goin' to blow?"
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The "Spray" leaving Sydney,
Australia, in the new suit of sails given by
Commodore Foy of Australia
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The "Spray" ashore for
"boot-topping" at the Keeling Islands
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Captain Slocum drifting out to sea
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The "Spray" at Mauritius
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Captain Joshua Slocum
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Cartoon printed in the Cape Town
"Owl" of March 5, 1898, in connection
with an item about Captain Slocum's trip to
Pretoria
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Captain Slocum, Sir Alfred Milner (with the
tall hat), and Colonel Saunderson, M. P.,
on the bow of the "Spray" at Cape Town
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Reading day and night
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The "Spray" passed by the
"Oregon"
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Again tied to the old stake at Fairhaven
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Plan of the after cabin of the
"Spray"
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Deck-plan of the "Spray"
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Sail-plan of the "Spray"
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Steering-gear of the "Spray"
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Body-plan of the "Spray"
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Lines of the "Spray"
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