Sailing Alone Around the World(孤帆独航绕地球)
Joshua Slocum
Chapter 1
A blue-nose ancestry with Yankee proclivities—Youthful fondness
for the sea—Master of the shipNorthern Light—Loss of
theAquidneck—Return home from Brazil in the
canoeLiberdade—The gift of a "ship"—The rebuilding
of theSpray-Conundrums in regard to finance and
calking—The launching of theSpray.
In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, 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 birthplac…