Sailing Alone Around The World
Joshua Slocum
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
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.
In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking
the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the
range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes
have been built. The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the
world's commerce, and it is nothing against the master mariner if the birthplace mentioned on his
certificate be Nova Scotia. I was born in a cold spot, on coldest North Mountain, on a cold February 20,
though I am a citizen of the United States - a naturalized Yankee, if it may be said that Nova Scotians are
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