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Sailing Alone Around the World by Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1910?
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A word from our supporters: File extension PGN | Produced by D Garcia, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD [Illustration: The "Spray" from a photograph taken in Australian waters.] SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD By Captain Joshua Slocum Illustrated by THOMAS FOGARTY AND GEORGE VARIAN [Illustration] TO THE ONE WHO SAID: "THE 'SPRAY' WILL COME BACK." CONTENTS 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 |