Read Alone at Sea : The Adventures of Joshua Slocum (9780385674072) Online
Authors: Ann Spencer
“a Fuegian autograph” —
Ibid., p. 67
133
“one eye over my shoulders …”
— Ibid., p. 60
“the worst murderer …”
— PANS
“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.
“Here I felt the throb …”
— Ibid.
“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
“God knows how my …”
— Ibid.
“humoring my vessel”
— Ibid., p.69
“All my troubles …”
— Ibid., p. 70
Chapter Eight —
Walden at Sea: A Solitude Supreme
“Still in dismal fog …”
— Ibid., p. 15
“Even when I slept …”
— Ibid., p. 31
“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
“While the days go thus …”
— Ibid., p. 82
“sense of loneliness …”
— Ibid., p. 87
“How could one tell …”
— Ibid., p. 50
“All distracting uneasiness …”
— PANS
“Then was the time …”
— Ibid., p. 70
“For days she sailed …”
— Ibid., p. 105
“The weather became fine …”
Ibid., p. 45
“The false appearance …”
— Ibid., p. 36
“a sort of Calvary …”
— Ibid., p. 64
“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
“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
“where I drew …”
— Ibid., p. 118
“When I found myself …”
— Ibid., p. 68
“Moreover, she had discovered …”
— Ibid., p. 68
“Eight bells”
— Ibid., p. 15
“sounded hollow in …”
— Ibid., p. 15
“[I] pitched my voice …”
— Ibid., p. 15
“The porpoises were …”
— Ibid. p. 15
“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
“I sailed with a free wind …”
— Ibid., pp. 75, 76
“self-reliance unshaken …”
— Ibid., p. 77
“I found from the result …”
— Ibid., p. 76
“There is nothing in the realm …”
— Ibid., p.77
“I was en rapport now …”
— Ibid., p. 77
“To kill the companions …”
— Ibid., p. 154
“Nothing is more dreadful …”
— Ibid., p. 79
“I was destined to sail …”
— Ibid., PANS
“Everything in connection …”
— Letter from JS to Clifford Johnson, April 17, 1903, TC
“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
“Captain Slocum was what …”
— Thomas Fleming Day,
The Rudder
, January 1911, p. 62
“Though I do not feel …”
— PANS
“To be alone forty-three days …”
— SAAW, p. 79
“I expected to see this …”
— Ibid., p. 110
“My vessel being moored …”
— Ibid., p. 80
“I preferred to remain …”
— Ibid., p. 127
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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.
“to the unconventional …”
— SAAW, p. 84
“You don’t mean
round
…”
— Ibid., p. 127
“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
“What an example …”
— Ibid., p. 122
“He showed me …”
— Ibid., p. 127
“Man, man …”
— Ibid., p. 94
“had to do something for …”
— PANS
“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
“When I got out …”
— Slater, in
Daily Telegraph
(Sydney), October 9, 1896
“At first my daily fare …”
— Ibid.
“I ask the public …”
— Ibid.
“Captain Slocum declined …”
— Ibid.
“a pluck into anchorage”
— SAAW, p. 88
“gathered data from …”
— Ibid., p. 88
“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.
“As I sailed farther …”
— SAAW, p. 81
“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
“I soon found that …”
— Ibid., p. 134
“PROBABLY LOST …”
—
New Bedford Standard
, August 24, 1897
“If there was a moment …”
— SAAW, p. 95
“I have not yet decided …”
—
Daily Telegraph
(Sydney), January 29, 1897
Chapter Ten —
Booming Along Joyously for Home
“Differing in many respects …”
— Undated clipping, possibly
Providence Journal
, TC
“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
“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
“the land of distances …”
— Ibid., p. 126
“’Tis the fairest …”
— Ibid., p. 130
“The
Spray
soon …”
— Ibid., p. 130
“ran along steadily …”
— Ibid., p. 130
“just leaping along …”
— Ibid., p. 130
“One could not be …”
— Ibid., pp. 130, 131
“island of tragedies”
— Ibid., p. 133
“Let what will happen …”
— Ibid., p. 137
“strange and forgotten …”
— Ibid., p. 139
“the handsome day’s work …”
— Ibid. p. 139
“Are there any …”
— Ibid., p. 139
“Let us keep together …”
— Ibid., p. 139
“pondered long …”
— Ibid., p. 139
“was startled by …”
— Ibid., p. 141
“I taxed my memory …”
— Ibid., p. 142
“imaginary reefs”
— Ibid., p. 142
“I could have nailed …”
— Ibid., p. 142
“The
Spray
was booming …”
— Ibid., p. 146