PREFACE
SAGAS OF THE SEAS
THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER
1620
Governor William Bradford
THE BON HOMME RICHARD
John Paul Jones
THE CHASE AND THE CAPTURE
J. Cobb
THE PRIVATEER
James Fenimore Cooper
(From the "Water-Witch")
THE MAIN-TRUCK
Anonymous
(From "The Book of the Ocean" Auburn N. Y. 1857)
THE LOG OF THE ARETHUSA
William Hussey Macey
(From "There She Blows" Dillingham, N. Y. 1877)
LEVIATHAN
J. Ross Browne
(From "Etchings of a Whaling-Cruise" Harper & Bros. 1846.)
AN OLD-TIME MATE
Roland F. Coffin
(From "Archibald The Cat and Other Yarns" W. A. Paton, Pubr. N. Y. 1878.)
THE GALE
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
(From "Two Years Before The Mast")
FLOGGING
Richard Henry Dana, Jr
(From "Two Years Before The Mast")
THE SLAVE TRADE
Willis J. Abbot
(from "American Merchant Ships and Sailors" Dodd Mead & Co.)
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
Edgar Allan Poe
"MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS"
J. Cobb
(from "The Book of The Ocean" Auburn N. Y. 1857.)
THE FROZEN NORTH
Elisha Kent Kane
(from Dr. Kane's "Journal of Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin." 1856.)
THE ENCHANTED VALLEY
Herman Melville
(from "Typee")
THE SUPERSTITIOUS SEAMAN
Thomas Gibbons
(from "Tales That Were Told". 1892.)
THE RACE IT BLEW
James B. Connolly
RILEY
Hall and Nordhoff
(from "Faery Lands of the South Seas" Harper & Bros. 1921)
