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| Introduction |
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1 A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities |
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Youthful fondness for the sea |
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Master of the ship Northern Light |
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Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade |
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The rebuilding of the Spray |
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Conundrums in regard to finance and calking |
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The launching of the Spray |
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A voyage around the world projected |
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From Boston to Gloucester |
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Fitting out for the ocean voyage |
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Half of a dory for a ship's boat |
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The run from Gloucester to Nova Scotia |
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A shaking up in home waters |
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3 Goodbye to the American coast |
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Off Sable Island in a fog |
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The man in the moon takes an interest in the voyage |
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The first fit of loneliness |
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The Spray encounters La Vaguisa |
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A bottle of wine from the Spaniard |
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A bout of words with the captain of the Java |
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The steamship Olympia spoken |
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4 Squally weather in the Azores |
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Delirious from cheese and plums |
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Compliments exchanged with the British navy |
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A picnic on the Morocco shore |
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5 Sailing from Gibraltar with the assistance of her Majesty's tug |
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The Spray's course changed from the Suez Canal to Cape Horn |
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Chased by a Moorish pirate |
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A comparison with Columbus |
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A bill against the Brazilian government |
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Preparing for the stormy weather of the Cape |
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6 Departure from Rio de Janeiro |
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The Spray ashore on the sands of Uruguay |
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A narrow escape from shipwreck |
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The boy who found a sloop |
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The Spray floated but somewhat damaged |
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Courtesies from the British consul at Maldonado |
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A warm greeting at Montevideo --- An excursion to Buenos Aires |
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Shortening the mast and bowsprit |
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7 Weighing anchor at Buenos Aires |
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An outburst of emotion at the mouth of the Plate |
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Submerged by a great wave |
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A stormy entrance to the strait |
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Captain Samblich's happy gift of a bag of carpet-tacks |
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Chased by Indians from Fortescue Bay |
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A miss-shot for `Black Pedro' |
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Taking in supplies of wood and water at Three Island Cove --- Animal life |
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8 From Cape Pillar into the Pacific |
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Driven by a tempest toward Cape Horn |
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Captain Slocum's greatest sea adventure |
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Beaching the strait again by way of Cockburn Channel |
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Some savages find the carpet-tacks |
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A series of fierce williwaws |
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9 Repairing the Spray's sails |
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Savages and an obstreperous anchor |
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An encounter with Black Pedro |
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A visit to the steamship Colombia |
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On the defensive against a fleet of canoes |
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A record of voyages through the strait |
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10 Running to Port Angosto in a snow-storm |
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A defective sheetrope places the Spray in peril |
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The Spray as a target for a Fuegian arrow |
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Again in the open Pacific |
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The run to the island of Juan Fernandez |
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At Robinson Crusoe's anchorage |
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11 The islanders at Juan Fernandez entertained with Yankee doughnuts |
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The beauties of Robinson Crusoe's realm |
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The mountain monument to Alexander Selkirk |
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A stroll with the children of the island |
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Westward ho! with a friendly gale |
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A month's free sailing with the Southern Cross and the sun for guides |
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12 Seventy-two days without a port |
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A peep into the Spray's galley |
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Flying-fish for breakfast |
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A visit from Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson |
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An amusing merry-go-round |
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Teachers and pupils of Papauta College |
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At the mercy of sea-nymphs |
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Goodbye to friends at Vailima |
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Leaving Fiji to the south |
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Arrival at Newcastle, Australia |
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Commodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails |
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A shark that proved to be valuable |
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14 A testimonial from a lady |
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The skipper delivers his first lecture on the voyage |
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An inspection of the Spray for safety at Devonport |
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Northward bound for Torres Strait |
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Friends on the Australian coast |
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15 Arrival at Port Denison, Queensland |
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Reminiscences of Captain Cook |
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Lecturing for charity at Cooktown |
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A happy escape from a coral reef |
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Home Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island |
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An American pearl-fisherman |
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Jubilee at Thursday Island |
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A new ensign for the Spray |
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16 A call for careful navigation |
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Three hours' steering in twenty-three days |
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Arrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands |
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A curious chapter of social history |
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A welcome from the children of the islands |
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Cleaning and painting the Spray on the beach |
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A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam |
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A risky adventure in a small boat |
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The governor calms the fears of the people |
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17 A clean bill of health at Mauritius |
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Sailing the voyage over again in the opera-house |
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A newly discovered plant named in honour of the Spray's skipper |
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A party of young ladies out for a sail |
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A warm reception at Durban |
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A friendly cross-examination by Henry M Stanley |
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Three wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the earth |
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18 Rounding the `Cape of Storms' in olden time |
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The Spray ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town |
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A railway trip to the Transvaal |
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President Kruger's odd definition of the Spray's voyage |
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Distinguished guests on the Spray |
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Cocoanut fibre as a padlock |
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Courtesies from the admiral of the Queen's navy |
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19 In the isle of Napoleon's exile |
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A guest in the ghost-room at Plantation House |
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An excursion to historic Longwood |
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Coffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it |
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The Spray's ill luck with animals |
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A prejudice against small dogs |
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A rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricket |
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20 In the favouring current off Cape St Roque, Brazil |
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All at sea regarding the Spanish-American war |
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An exchange of signals with the battle-ship Oregon |
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Off Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island |
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Reappearance to the Spray of the north star |
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A charming introduction to Grenada |
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Talks to friendly auditors |
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A sea covered with sargasso |
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The jibstay parts in a gale |
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Welcomed by a tornado off Fire Island |
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End of a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles |
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The Spray again at Fairhaven |
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Lines and Sail-Plan of the Spray |
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