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- "A sense of loneliness seized upon me as the islands faded astern, and as a ..."
- "All government dues were remitted, and after I had rested a few days a port ..."
- "And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or ..."
- "Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have ..."
- "As for ageing, why, the dial of my life was turned back till my friends ..."
- "As if to make up for lost time, she seemed to touch only the high ..."
- "As my interpreter and I entered the front door of the palace, the king's brother, ..."
- "At Sydney I was at once among friends. The Spray remained at the various watering-places ..."
- "Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen ..."
- "Evening after evening during this time I read by the light of a candle on ..."
- "Finding a rough sea, I swung her off free and sailed north of the Horn ..."
- "First the mainsheet strap was carried away, and then the peak halyard-block broke from the ..."
- "His Majesty then excused himself, while I talked with his daughter, the beautiful Faamu-Sami (a ..."
- "'How fast will it crawl?' cried my old captain friend, who had been towed by ..."
- "I arrived at Newcastle in the teeth of a gale of wind. It was a ..."
- "I came to in a snug cove near Manly for the night, the Sydney harbour ..."
- "I had myself a desire to return to the place of the very beginning whence ..."
- "I had then only to take ava with the family and be ready for sea. ..."
- "I myself gave some thought to the advisability of a 'professional calker.' "
- "I never saw it rain harder even in Australia. But they were out for fun, ..."
- "I see, as I look back over my own small achievement, a kit of not ..."
- "I used them for spare spars, and the butt of one made a serviceable jib-boom ..."
- "I was born in a cold spot, on coldest North Mountain, on a cold February ..."
- "I was several months more than that at Fairhaven, for I got work now and ..."
- "If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were ..."
- "In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called ..."
- "In this gale I made the land about Seal Rocks, where the steamship Catherton, with ..."
- "It had been decided by his club that the Spray could not be officially recognized, ..."
- "It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so ..."
- "'It'll crawl!' cried a man from Marion, passing with a basket of clams on his ..."
- "Many visitors came on board, the first being the United States consul, Mr. Brown. Nothing ..."
- "Men were at work clearing the land, and to one of them she gave an ..."
- "My father was a good judge of a boat, but the old clay farm which ..."
- "My father was the sort of man who, if wrecked on a desolate island, would ..."
- "My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her ..."
- "No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the ..."
- "Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the ..."
- "Of the landmarks in the pleasant town of Apia, my memory rests first on the ..."
- "On both sides my family were sailors; and if any Slocum should be found not ..."
- "On the 18th of June a gale began to blow from the southwest, and the ..."
- "On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, ..."
- "On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have ..."
- "One particularly severe gale encountered near New Caledonia foundered the American clipper-ship Patrician farther south. "
- "Sargasso, scattered over the sea in bunches, or trailed curiously along down the wind in ..."
- "So on July 3, with a fair wind, she waltzed beautifully round the coast and ..."
- "Strange sea-animals, little and big, swimming in and out, the most curious among them being ..."
- "The cotton never 'crawled.' When the calking was finished, two coats of copper paint were ..."
- "The first name on the Spray's visitors' book in the home port was written by ..."
- "The hull of my vessel being now put together as strongly as wood and iron ..."
- "The only thing that now worried my friends along the beach was, 'Will she pay?' ..."
- "The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the ..."
- "The rudder was then shipped and painted, and on the following day the Spray was ..."
- "The sea has been much maligned. To find one's way to lands already discovered is ..."
- "The Spray had barely cleared the islands when a sudden burst of the trades brought ..."
- "The Spray was booming joyously along for home now, making her usual good time, when ..."
- "The Spray was not quite satisfied till I sailed her around to her birthplace, Fairhaven, ..."
- "The Spray's dimensions were, when finished, thirty-six feet nine inches long over all, fourteen feet ..."
- "Then the mast, a smart New Hampshire spruce, was fitted, and likewise all the small ..."
- "Thence I sailed direct for New South Wales, passing south of New Caledonia, and arrived ..."
- "They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they ..."
- "This was as it should have been, for, after all of the dangers of the ..."
- "This, in my own poor way, having been done, I now moor ship, weather-bitt cables, ..."
- "To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence ..."
- "To succeed, however, in anything at all, one should go understandingly about his work and ..."
- "Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the ..."
- "When their ship arrived at Sydney they gave the captain a purse of gold for ..."
