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Alone at Sea : The Adventures of Joshua Slocum (9780385674072)

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by Spencer, Ann


  — SAAW, p. 58 Pg. 109

  “set to work with my palm and needle …”

  — Ibid., p. 58

  “If it was not the best-setting sail afloat, …”

  — Ibid., p. 58

  “Between the storm-bursts …”

  — Ibid., p. 66

  13

  “I … mended the sloop’s sails …”

  — Ibid., p. 66

  “carefully top and bottom”

  — Ibid., p. 94

  “unshipped the sloop’s mast …”

  — Ibid., p. 40

  14

  “In the days of serene weather …”

  Ibid., p. 106

  Chapter Seven — High Seas Adventures

  1

  “But where the sloop avoided

  — SAAW, p. 45

  2

  “For under great excitement, one lives fast.”

  — Ibid.

  “Take warning, Spray …”

  — SAAW, p. 8

  “It was the 13th of the month, …”

  — Ibid., p. 12

  3

  “whirled around like a top”

  — Ibid.

  “I now saw the tufts …”

  — Ibid., p. 28

  “the sons of generations of pirates”

  — Ibid.

  4

  “shook her in every timber”

  — Ibid.

  “You can just imagine …”

  — PANS

  “I perceived this theiving …”

  — Ibid., p. 28

  “too fatigued to sleep”

  — Ibid., p. 29

  5

  “heartsore of choppy seas”

  — Ibid., p. 44

  “I will not say …”

  — Ibid., p.44

  “where the sloop avoided …”

  — Ibid., p. 45

  6

  “I had only a moment …”

  — Ibid., p. 45

  7

  “At this point where the tides …”

  — Ibid., p. 63

  “the waves rose and fell …”

  — Ibid., p. 53

  “as squalid as contact …”

  — Ibid., p. 46

  “fire-water”

  — Ibid.

  “poisonous stuff …”

  — Ibid.

  8

  “You must use them …”

  — Ibid.

  “It was not without thoughts …”

  — Ibid., p. 47

  “savages”

  — Ibid.

  “yammerschooner”

  — Ibid.

  “into the cabin, …”

  — Ibid., p. 48

  9

  “So much for the …”

  — Ibid.

  “I reasoned that I had all …”

  — Ibid.

  10

  “business end”

  — Ibid., p. 55

  “like a pack of hounds”

  — Ibid.

  “They jumped pell-mell …”

  — Ibid.

  11

  “a Fuegian autograph” —

  Ibid., p. 67

  133

  “one eye over my shoulders …”

  — Ibid., p. 60

  “the worst murderer …”

  — PANS

  12

  “I was so strongly impressed …”

  — SAAW, p. 46

  “the terror of Cape Horn”

  — Ibid., p. 46

  “compressed gales of wind …”

  — Ibid., p. 47

  “A full-blown williwaw …”

  — Ibid.

  13

  “Here I felt the throb …”

  — Ibid.

  14

  “feeling his way …”

  — Ibid., p. 54

  “Any landsman …”

  — Ibid., p. 54 (as cited by Slocum in Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Everyman’s Library 104, 1906, pp. 229–31)

  “the greatest sea-adventure …”

  — SAAW, p. 54

  15

  “God knows how my …”

  — Ibid.

  16

  “humoring my vessel”

  — Ibid., p.69

  “All my troubles …”

  — Ibid., p. 70

  Chapter Eight — Walden at Sea: A Solitude Supreme

  1

  “Still in dismal fog …”

  — Ibid., p. 15

  2

  “Even when I slept …”

  — Ibid., p. 31

  3

  “I watched light after light …”

  — Ibid., p. 14

  “lowered over the sea like a pall …”

  — Ibid., p. 14

  “In the dismal fog I felt …”

  — Ibid., p. 15

  “The acute pain of solitude …”

  — Ibid., p. 16

  4

  “While the days go thus …”

  — Ibid., p. 82

  “sense of loneliness …”

  — Ibid., p. 87

  “How could one tell …”

  — Ibid., p. 50

  5

  “All distracting uneasiness …”

  — PANS

  “Then was the time …”

  — Ibid., p. 70

  6

  “For days she sailed …”

  — Ibid., p. 105

  “The weather became fine …”

  Ibid., p. 45

  7

  “The false appearance …”

  — Ibid., p. 36

  “a sort of Calvary …”

  — Ibid., p. 64

  8

  “large red cap …”

  — Ibid., p. 21

  “Yonder is the Pinta …”

  — Ibid., p. 21

  “pains and calentura”

  — Ibid., p. 22

  “You did wrong, captain …”

  — Ibid., p. 21

  9

  “smiling full moon”

  — Ibid., p. 14

  “many long …”

  — Ibid., p. 14

  “there was no end …”

  Ibid., p. 79

  “the spider and his wife …”

  — Ibid., p. 136

  “In my cabin it met …”

  — Ibid., p. 60

  10

  “where I drew …”

  — Ibid., p. 118

  “When I found myself …”

  — Ibid., p. 68

  “Moreover, she had discovered …”

  — Ibid., p. 68

  11

  “Eight bells”

  — Ibid., p. 15

  “sounded hollow in …”

  — Ibid., p. 15

  “[I] pitched my voice …”

  — Ibid., p. 15

  “The porpoises were …”

  — Ibid. p. 15

  12

  “after a worthy literary friend …”

  — Ibid., p. 68

  “gossiping waves”

  — Ibid., p. 70

  “doffed their white caps beautifully”

  — Ibid., p. 69

  “gam”

  — Ibid., p. 31

  “There are no poetry-enshrined …”

  — Ibid., p. 31 Pg. 144

  “I had almost forgotten …”

  — Ibid., p. 146

  13

  “I sailed with a free wind …”

  — Ibid., pp. 75, 76

  14

  “self-reliance unshaken …”

  — Ibid., p. 77

  “I found from the result …”

  — Ibid., p. 76

  “There is nothing in the realm …”

  — Ibid., p.77

  15

  “I was en rapport now …”

  — Ibid., p. 77

  “To kill the companions …”

  — Ibid., p
. 154

  “Nothing is more dreadful …”

  — Ibid., p. 79

  16

  “I was destined to sail …”

  — Ibid., PANS

  “Everything in connection …”

  — Letter from JS to Clifford Johnson, April 17, 1903, TC

  17

  “Old sailors may have odd ways …”

  — Letter from JS to cousin, Joel Slocum, May 4, 1899, TC

  “I sailed alone with God.”

  — SAAW, p. 70

  Chapter Nine — Ports of Call

  1

  “Captain Slocum was what …”

  — Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, January 1911, p. 62

  2

  “Though I do not feel …”

  — PANS

  3

  “To be alone forty-three days …”

  — SAAW, p. 79

  “I expected to see this …”

  — Ibid., p. 110

  4

  “My vessel being moored …”

  — Ibid., p. 80

  “I preferred to remain …”

  — Ibid., p. 127

  5

  “plucky Yankee”

  — Daily Telegraph, Sydney, January 9, 1897, TC

  “the hero of …”

  — Sydney Morning Herald, undated clipping, TC

  “So much interest …”

  — North West Post, Tasmania, undated clipping, TC

  “the news of her arrival …”

  — St. Helena Guardian, undated clipping, TC

  6

  “the gallant Captain’s …”

  — Gibraltar Chronicle, August 23, 1895

  “An Intrepid Navigator”

  — North West Post, February 23, 1897,

  Tasmania “Five minutes in his company …”

  — Ibid.

  “During his sojourn …”

  — Melbourne newspaper

  7

  “By the way, some one …”

  — JS quoted in Daily Telegraph, Sydney, January 29, 1897, p. 3, col. 4 Pg. 158

  “when she heard …”

  — PANS, p. 115

  “destroyer of the world”

  — Ibid., p. 115

  “The captain is eating …”

  — Ibid., p. 112

  8

  “The heart of a missionary is all …”

  — JS, in letter to Joseph B. Gilder, written from “The Spray tied to a palm tree,” Keeling Cocos, August 20, 1897

  “He didn’t want your …”

  — Ben Aymar Slocum, in correspondence with Walter Teller, TC

  “I myself do not care …”

  — JS, in letter to cousin, Joel Slocum, May 4, 1899, TC

  “instead of proceeding …”

  — PANS

  “to feast [his] eyes …”

  — SAAW, p. 101

  9

  “of course made a pilgrimage …”

  — Ibid., p. 74

  “blessed island”

  — Ibid., p. 74

  “Why Alexander Selkirk …”

  — Ibid., p. 74

  “made the hills ring …”

  — Ibid., p. 72

  “She told me that …”

  — Ibid., p. 81

  10

  “To Captain Slocum …”

  — Ibid., p. 81

  “at once amusing …”

  — Ibid., p. 82

  “saw nothing to shake …”

  — Ibid., p. 82

  “I had a curious …”

  — Johnson, in “The Cook Who Sailed Alone,” Good Housekeeping, February 1903.

  11

  “to the unconventional …”

  — SAAW, p. 84

  “You don’t mean round …”

  — Ibid., p. 127

  12

  “one of the party …”

  — Ibid., p. 123

  “losing himself in a passion …”

  — Ibid., p. 123

  “The next day …”

  — Ibid., p. 123

  “in the land of napkins …”

  — Ibid., p. 115

  “the ghosts of hempen towels …”

  — Ibid., p. 115

  13

  “What an example …”

  — Ibid., p. 122

  “He showed me …”

  — Ibid., p. 127

  “Man, man …”

  — Ibid., p. 94

  “had to do something for …”

  — PANS

  14

  “Boston to Bowen …”

  — Ibid., p. 100

  “proceeded to exhibit …”

  — Cape Town Argus, undated clipping (prob. early March 1898)

  “a large number …”

  — J.R. Whitton, Rector of the Normal College, Cape Town, March 4, 1898.

  “accounts of perilous travels …”

  — PANS

  15

  “When I got out …”

  — Slater, in Daily Telegraph (Sydney), October 9, 1896

  “At first my daily fare …”

  — Ibid.

  16

  “I ask the public …”

  — Ibid.

  “Captain Slocum declined …”

  — Ibid.

  “a pluck into anchorage”

  — SAAW, p. 88

  “gathered data from …”

  — Ibid., p. 88

  17

  “disgusted”

  — Slocum, in Daily Telegraph (Sydney), October 9, 1896 (from Newcastle)

  “This Captain Slocum …”

  — Ibid.

  “Slater: You have been …”

  — Records of cross-examination of Slater by Slocum in The Courts, Slater v. Slocum, in Sydney Morning Herald, October 12, 1896.

  18

  “As I sailed farther …”

  — SAAW, p. 81

  19

  “received a new coat …”

  — Gibraltar Chronicle, August ?, 1895

  “repairs to hull …”

  — Shipyard reports, Leon Fredrich research, TC

  “intrepid water tramp”

  — Heman Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamor Hill, N.Y., Macmillan, 1954, p. 245

  [He writes of Slocum: “The intrepid water-tramp, Captain Joshua Slocum, had all his adult life sailed the seven seas in his forty-foot sloop, alone, with no crew, surviving by a succession of miracles, which in themselves gave him a kind of oblique significance.”]

  “Captain Slocum …”

  — St. Helena Guardian, PANS

  20

  “I soon found that …”

  — Ibid., p. 134

  21

  “PROBABLY LOST …”

  — New Bedford Standard, August 24, 1897

  “If there was a moment …”

  — SAAW, p. 95

  22

  “I have not yet decided …”

  — Daily Telegraph (Sydney), January 29, 1897

  Chapter Ten — Booming Along Joyously for Home

  1

  “Differing in many respects …”

  — Undated clipping, possibly Providence Journal, TC

  2

  “I had a desire …”

  — SAAW, p. 150

  “a succession of impulses …”

  — Igor Stravinsky, cited in Harvard Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Willi Apel, Belknap Harvard, 1974, p. 823

  3

  “a morning land-wind”

  — SAAW, p. 123

  “Cape of Storms”

  — Ibid., p. 128

  “One gale was much …”

  — Ibid. p. 126

  “The Spray was trying …”

  — Ibid.

  “The voyage then seemed …”

  — Ibid.

  “the dividing-line of the weather”

  — Ibid., p. 126

  4

  “the land of distances …”r />
  — Ibid., p. 126

  “’Tis the fairest …”

  — Ibid., p. 130

  “The Spray soon …”

  — Ibid., p. 130

  “ran along steadily …”

  — Ibid., p. 130

  5

  “just leaping along …”

  — Ibid., p. 130

  “One could not be …”

  — Ibid., pp. 130, 131

  “island of tragedies”

  — Ibid., p. 133

  6

  “Let what will happen …”

  — Ibid., p. 137

  “strange and forgotten …”

  — Ibid., p. 139

 

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