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and pupils of Papauta College--At the mercy

of sea-nymphs.

CHAPTER XIII
Samoan royalty--King Malietoa--Good-by to friends at
Vailima--Leaving Fiji to the south--Arrival at Newcastle,
Australia--The yachts of Sydney--A ducking on the
Spray--Commodore Foy presents the sloop with a new suit of sails--On
to Melbourne--A shark that proved to be valuable--A change of
course-The "Rain of Blood"--In Tasmania.

CHAPTER XIV
A testimonial from a lady--Cruising round Tasmania--The skipper
delivers his first lecture on the voyage--Abundant provisions--An
inspection of the Spray for safety at Devonport--Again at
Sydney--Northward bound for Torres Strait--An amateur
shipwreck--Friends on the Australian coast--Perils of a coral sea.

CHAPTER XV
Arrival at Port Denison, Queensland--A lecture--Reminiscences of
Captain Cook--Lecturing for charity at Cooktown--A happy escape
from a coral reef--Home Island, Sunday Island, Bird Island--An
American pearl-fisherman--Jubilee at Thursday Island--A new ensign
for the Spray--Booby Island--Across the Indian Ocean--Christmas
Island.

CHAPTER XVI

A call for careful navigation--Three hours' steering in twenty-three
days--Arrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands--A curious chapter of social
history--A welcome from the children of the islands--Cleaning and
painting the Spray on the beach--A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of
jam--Keeling as a paradise--A risky adventure in a small boat--Away to
Rodriguez--Taken for Antichrist--The governor calms the fears of the
people--A lecture--A convent in the hills.

CHAPTER XVII
A clean bill of health at Mauritius--Sailing the voyage over again in the
opera-house--A newly discovered plant named in honor of the Spray's
skipper--A party of young ladies out for a sail--A bivouac on deck--A
warm reception at Durban--A friendly cross-examination by Henry M.
Stanley--Three wise Boers seek proof of the flatness of the
earth--Leaving South Africa.

CHAPTER XVIII
Bounding the "Cape of Storms" in olden time--A rough Christmas--The
Spray ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town--A railway trip to
the Transvaal--President Kruger's odd definition of the Spray's
voyage--His terse sayings--Distinguished guests on the
Spray--Cocoanut fiber as a padlock--Courtesies from the admiral of the
Queen's navy--Off for St. Helena--Land in sight.

CHAPTER XIX
In the isle of Napoleon's exile--Two lectures--A guest in the
ghost-room at Plantation House--An excursion to historic
Longwood--Coffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it--The Spray's ill

luck with animals--A prejudice against small dogs--A rat, the Boston
spider, and the cannibal cricket--Ascension Island.

CHAPTER XX
In the favoring current off Cape St. Roque, Brazil--All at sea regarding
the Spanish-American war--An exchange of signals with the battle-ship
Oregon--Off Dreyfus's prison on Devil's Island--Reappearance to the
Spray of the north star--The light on Trinidad--A charming introduction
to Grenada--Talks to friendly auditors.

CHAPTER XXI
Clearing for home--In the calm belt--A sea covered with sargasso--The
jibstay parts in a gale--Welcomed by a tornado off Fire Island--A
change of plan--Arrival at Newport--End of a cruise of over forty-six
thousand miles--The Spray again at Fairhaven.
APPENDIX
LINES AND SAIL-PLAN OF THE "SPRAY"
Her pedigree so far as known--The lines of the Spray--Her self-steering
qualities--Sail-plan and steering-gear--An unprecedented feat--A final
word of cheer to would-be navigators.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE "Spray" Frontispiece FROM a photograph taken in Australian
waters.
THE "Northern Light," CAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM, BOUND FOR
LIVERPOOL, 1885

CROSS-SECTION OF THE "SPRAY"
"IT'LL CRAWL"
"NO DORG NOR NO CAT"
THE DEACON'S DREAM
CAPTAIN SLOCUM'S CHRONOMETER
"GOOD EVENING, SIR"
HE ALSO SENT HIS CARD
CHART OF THE "SPRAY'S" COURSE AROUND THE
WORLD--APRIL 24, 1895, TO JULY 3, 1898
THE ISLAND OF PICO
CHART OF THE "SPRAY'S" ATLANTIC VOYAGES FROM
BOSTON TO GIBRALTAR, THENCE TO THE STRAIT OF
MAGELLAN, IN 1895, AND FINALLY HOMEWARD BOUND
FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE IN 1898
THE APPARITION AT THE WHEEL
COMING TO ANCHOR AT GIBRALTAR
THE "SPRAY" AT ANCHOR OFF GIBRALTAR
CHASED BY PIRATES
I SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I COULD NOT SWIM
A DOUBLE SURPRISE
AT THE SIGN OF THE COMET
A GREAT WAVE OFF THE PATAGONIAN COAST

ENTRANCE TO THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
THE COURSE OF THE "SPRAY" THROUGH THE STRAIT OF
MAGELLAN
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T SHIP WITHOUT ANOTHER "MON
AND A DOOG"
A FUEGIAN GIRL
LOOKING WEST FROM FORTESCUE BAY, WHERE THE
"SPRAY" WAS CHASED BY INDIANS
A BRUSH WITH FUEGIANS
A BIT OF FRIENDLY ASSISTANCE
CAPE PILLAR
THEY HOWLED LIKE A PACK OF HOUNDS
A GLIMPSE OF SANDY POINT (PUNTA ARENAS) IN THE
STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
"YAMMERSCHOONER!"
A CONTRAST IN LIGHTING--THE ELECTRIC LIGHTS OF THE
"COLOMBIA" AND THE CANOE FIRES OF THE FORTESCUE
INDIANS
RECORDS OF PASSAGES THROUGH THE STRAIT AT THE
HEAD OF BORGIA BAY
SALVING WRECKAGE
THE FIRST SHOT UNCOVERED THREE FUEGIANS
THE "SPRAY" APPROACHING JUAN FERNANDEZ, ROBINSON
CRUSOE'S ISLAND

THE HOUSE OF THE KING
ROBINSON CRUSOE'S CAVE
THE MAN WHO CALLED A CABRA A GOAT
MEETING WITH THE WHALE
FIRST EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES IN SAMOA
VAILIMA, THE HOME OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
THE "SPRAY'S" COURSE FROM AUSTRALIA TO SOUTH
AFRICA
THE ACCIDENT AT SYDNEY
CAPTAIN SLOCUM WORKING THE "SPRAY" OUT OF