The first name on the Spray's visitors' book in the home port was written by the one who always said, 'The Spray will come back.'
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To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.Joshua Slocum
No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
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As if to make up for lost time, she seemed to touch only the high places. Under a sudden shock and strain her rigging began to give out.
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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
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It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
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