Sailing alone around the world [antikvár]

SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD CHAPTER I A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities—Youthful fondness for the sea — Master of the ship Northern Light—Loss of the Aquidneck—Return home from Brazil in the canoe Liberdade— The gift of a " ship " — The rebuilding of the Spray—Conundrums in regard to finance and calking —The launching of the Spray. IN the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime prov' ince, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. The people of this coast, hardy, robust, and strong, are disposed to compete in the world's commerce, and it is nothing against the master mariner if the birthplace mentioned on his certificate be Nova Scotia. I was born in a cold spot, on coldest North Moun-