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Sailing Alone Around The World

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Title: Sailing Alone Around The World
Author: Joshua Slocum
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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
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