Alone at Sea : The Adventures of Joshua Slocum (9780385674072) (32 page)

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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 …”

— 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

“the handsome day’s work …”

— Ibid. p. 139

“Are there any …”

— Ibid., p. 139

7

“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

8

“imaginary reefs”

— Ibid., p. 142

“I could have nailed …”

— Ibid., p. 142

“The
Spray
was booming …”

— Ibid., p. 146

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