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SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD
an oysterman, about a hundred years ago, on the coast of Delaware. There was no record in the cnstom-house of where she was built. She was once owned at Noank, Connecticut, afterward in New Bedford and when Captain Eben Pierce presented
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Plan of the after cabin of the Spray.
her to me, at the end of her natural life, she stood, as I have already described, propped up in a field at Fairhaven. Her lines were supposed to be those of a North Sea fisherman. In rebuilding timber by timber and plank by plank, I added to her free-