Alone at Sea : The Adventures of Joshua Slocum (9780385674072) (31 page)

“Mine was not the sort of life …”

— SAAW, pp. 3, 4

“With all its vicissitudes …”

— VJS,
Voyage of the Liberdade
, p. 122

“She was canoe-shaped …”

— Joseph Chase Allen, Directory Edition,
Vineyard Gazette
, undated clipping 195?, TC

“full brow, bright hazel eyes …”

—
New York World
, May 19, 1889, TC

“wee cabin on a plank …”

— Ibid.

“comfortable apartment ashore”

— From “An American Family Afloat,” New York Tribune.

“‘Just there’ …”

—
New York
World
, May 19, 1889, TC

“Xmas day was spent …”

— Hettie Slocum’s letter of January 28, 1889, to Mrs. Alfred McNutt,
Masstown, Colchester County, Nova Scotia — PANS

“We had a big storm …”

— Ibid.

“brave enough to face …”

— VJS,
Voyage of the Liberdade
, p. 122

“Hettie found she was not wholly …”

— Grace Murray Brown, letters to Teller (1952–56), TC

“Father did not come to the house”

— Garfield Slocum, correspondence with Teller, TC

“His love for Hettie …”

— Grace Murray Brown, letters to Teller (1952–56), TC

“More than any other event …”

— Joseph Conrad,
Mirror of the Sea
, p. 61

“spent much of his time …”

— Ben Aymar Slocum, correspondence with Teller, TC

“a hand alas! …”

— Title page,
Voyage of the Liberdade
, 1890, Robinson & Stephenson

“It is a very interesting narrative …”

—
Yarmouth
Herald
, July 2, 1895, gleaned from research sent by Leon Fredrich to Walter Teller, TC
Pg. 80

“a record of skilful seamanship …”

— Ibid.

“The book is written …”

— Ibid.

“I would have to get used to steamships …”

— Garfield Slocum, correspondence to Teller, TC

“It didn’t seem to suffice …”

— Slocum, in undated newspaper interview (around 1908), probably
Providence Journal
, TC

“the first ship …”

— PANS

“Frankly it was with a thrill …”

— VJS,
Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil
, Introduction, p. 171

“Confidentially: I was burning to get a rake …”

— Ibid., p. 189

“Being a man of a peaceful turn …”

— Ibid., p. 173

“navigator in command”

— Ibid., p. 173

“This Department …”

— Department of State letter, Washington, D.C., December 9, 1893, TC

“Alas! for all the hardships …”

— VJS,
Voyage of the Destroyer
, p. 194

“ridiculed and defamed him …”

—
Boston Sun
, August 3, 1894, TC

“anywhere at any time …”

— Ibid.

“duellists should …”

— Ibid.

“My wife would …”

— Ibid.

“she sat on the water …”

SAAW, p. 6

“a smart New Hampshire spruce”

— PANS

“What was there …”

— Ibid., p. 4

“I’m glad you’re quite frank …”

— Letter from Teller to William Sloane at Rutgers University Press, TC

“Joshua, I’ve had a v’yage”

— Slocum’s comments to reporters,
Boston Globe
, April 16, 1895; also appeared in “The Voyage of the Aquidneck and its Varied Adventures in South American Waters,”
Outing
, April 1903, TC

“The object of the trip?”

—
Boston Globe
, undated clipping, TC

“My Syndicade is filling up, …”

— Letter to Eugene Hardy, Roberts Brothers, TC

“I can not contract with you …”

— Letter to Slocum from Alf Ford, managing editor of the
Louisville Courier Journal
, January 3, 1894, TC

[Ralph Shoemaker, librarian of the
Courier Journal
, wrote to Walter Teller that he could find no articles written by
Slocum. Teller records in his notes about correspondence with Shoemaker, “Looks as though in Louisville they never bought a line. In fact, the only paper I know that did, is the Boston Globe, and as we shall see they didn’t buy much. I expect part of the trouble may have been that Slocum was too busy and hard-working to write.”

TC [Travel letters from Slocum’s
The Spray
appeared as Monday columns in the
Boston Globe
as follows: October 14, 1895, p. 6; October 21, 1895, p. 5; November 11, 1895, p.4]

“Mr. Wagnalls of the house …”

— Undated letter from JS to Eugene Hardy, TC

“a shop-worn …”

— Ibid.

“A thousand thanks”

— Letter from JS to Eugene Hardy, January 9, 1895, TC

“Rarely if ever …”

— H. Rider Haggard’s foreword to
A Strange Career
, a biography of John Gladwin Jebb by his widow, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895

“The library of the Spray …”

—
Boston Herald
, April 16, 1895, TC

“I don’t go out …”

— Ibid.

“Capt. Josh is a kinky salt …”

— Undated clipping, (before voyage, probably April 1895),
Boston
Herald
, TC

“very easily managed …”

— Ibid.

“the suicide squad”

— John Hanna,
The Rudder
, May 1940, p. 51, TC

“A big lurching sea …”

— Ibid.

“they flop right over …”

— Ibid.

“the Spray was a …”

— Howard Chapelle,
Maine Coast Fisherman
, June 1965

“I laid in two barrels …”

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

“To Sail Around World …”

—
Boston Daily Globe
, April 16, 1895, p. 4, TC

“builder, owner, skipper, …”

— Ibid.

“There now lies a little sloop …”

— Ibid.

“Her present rig …”

— Ibid.

“From New York I shall …”

— Ibid.

“sleep in the day time …”

— Ibid.

“an adventure …”

— Ibid.

“Capt. Slocum …”

— Ibid.

“The enterprise the old knight …”

—
Joshua Slocum
, Walter Teller, p. 77

“Do you think …”

— Letter to Teller from Walter Sloane, TC

“Waves dancing joyously …”

— SAAW, Capt. Joshua Slocum, Ch. 2, p. 8

“I used to soak …”

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

“Sleeping or waking …”

— SAAW, p. 31

“thrilling pulse”

— Ibid., p. 8

“weigh the voyage …”

— Ibid.

“fisherman’s own”

— Ibid.

“I perceived, moreover, …”

— Ibid.

“the worst tide-race …”

— Ibid., p. 11

“He dodged a sea …”

— Ibid.

“fierce sou’west rip”

— Ibid., pp. 11, 12

“I think Pernambuco …”

— Letter from JS in Westport to Eugene Hardy, May 21, 1895, TC

“In our newfangled notions …”

— SAAW, p. 9

“The price of it was …”

— Ibid., p. 12

“an attack of malaria at Gloucester …”

— Letter from JS in Yarmouth to Roberts Brothers, June 20, 1895, TC

“After all deliberations …”

— Ibid.

“let go my last hold on America”

— PANS
Pg. 100

“[I have] been trying to scribble …”

— Letter from JS in Horta Faial to Eugene Hardy, July 23, 1895

“I send one more letter …”

— Letter from JS in Pernambuco to Eugene Hardy, October 8, 1895.

[Slocum also sent a personal letter to Hardy from Pernambuco, in which he let off a little steam. The note has prophetic overtones: “The Sun printed trash of mine freely enough on more than one occasion when it came for nothing and I suspect that a case of murder or rape would find space for all the particulars in all of the papers, But I cant [sic] go to war with them. I lived awful hard coming down: But dont say anything about it.”]

“A navigator husbands the wind”

— SAAW, p. 140

“The
Spray
had barely …”

— Ibid., p. 87

“To know the laws that govern …”

— Ibid., p. 76

“I saw antitrade clouds …”

— Ibid., p. 109

“I wished for no winter gales …”

— Ibid., p. 104

“It never took long …”

— Ibid., Appendix, p. 154

“During those twenty-three days …”

— Ibid., p. 110

“I found no fault …”

— Ibid., p. 23

“a contrivance of my own …”

— In Clifton Johnson, “The Cook Who Sailed
Alone,”
Good Housekeeping
, February 1903

“My way is to cook my victuals …”

— Ibid.

“Ground coffee …”

— Ibid.

“I had much difficulty …”

— SAAW, p. 23

“The only fresh fish …”

— Ibid., p. 30

“hermetically sealed the pores”

— In Johnson,
Good Housekeeping

“butter that will keep …”

— Ibid.

“I was determined to rely …”

— 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

“I … mended the sloop’s sails …”

— Ibid., p. 66

“carefully top and bottom”

— Ibid., p. 94

“unshipped the sloop’s mast …”

— Ibid., p. 40

“In the days of serene weather …”

Ibid., p. 106

“But where the sloop avoided

— SAAW, p. 45

“For under great excitement, one lives fast.”

— Ibid.

“Take warning, Spray …”

— SAAW, p. 8

“It was the 13th of the month, …”

— Ibid., p. 12

“whirled around like a top”

— Ibid.

“I now saw the tufts …”

— Ibid., p. 28

“the sons of generations of pirates”

— Ibid.

“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

“heartsore of choppy seas”

— Ibid., p. 44

“I will not say …”

— Ibid., p.44

“where the sloop avoided …”

— Ibid., p. 45

“I had only a moment …”

— Ibid., p. 45

“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.

“You must use them …”

— Ibid.

“It was not without thoughts …”

— Ibid., p. 47

“savages”

— Ibid.

“yammerschooner”

— Ibid.

“into the cabin, …”

— Ibid., p. 48

“So much for the …”

— Ibid.

“I reasoned that I had all …”

— Ibid.

“business end”

— Ibid., p. 55

“like a pack of hounds”

— Ibid.

“They jumped pell-mell …”

— Ibid.