. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard (jj; Kolkhoff Co. N. Y. the enemy, yet all day long he continued loading andfiring as rapidly as possible. When he was asked whyhe was wasting so much good powder, he respondedthat it was to ^show his colors. 114 New England A former island resident, whose home was at thelittle rustic town of West Tisbury, was CaptainJoshua Slocum, author of Sailing Alone Around theWorld, one of the most interesting accounts of realsea experiences ever written. The voyage which is the subject of thisbook was begun in1895 ^t Boston
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard (jj; Kolkhoff Co. N. Y. the enemy, yet all day long he continued loading andfiring as rapidly as possible. When he was asked whyhe was wasting so much good powder, he respondedthat it was to ^show his colors. 114 New England A former island resident, whose home was at thelittle rustic town of West Tisbury, was CaptainJoshua Slocum, author of Sailing Alone Around theWorld, one of the most interesting accounts of realsea experiences ever written. The voyage which is the subject of thisbook was begun in1895 ^t Boston andlasted three was made in alittle vessel that thecaptain built him-self. The Spray Jas he called it, wasthirty-seven feetlong and fourteenfeet wide, and thecabin was too lowto stand upright of the timethe wheel waslashed, and the boatsteered itself. Inthe fall of 1907,the captain sailedaway in the Spray for South America to explore theOrinoco River, and he has never been heard of Captain Slocum on the Spray, theboat in which he sailed alone aroundthe world
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