“When I became old enough to reflect, it was the aim at which all my energies were directed to make myself a useful man. I soon found that occupation, for some useful end or other, was the true secret of happiness.”

(Maury to Rutson Maury, August 31, 1840.)

“It’s the talent of industry that makes a man. I don’t think that so much depends upon intellect as is generally supposed; but industry and steadiness of purpose, they are the things.”

(Maury to Frank Minor, July 25, 1855.)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I.[His Early Years]1
II.[His Three Cruises]10
III.[He Resorts to the Pen]26
IV.[His Astronomical Work]44
V.[His Wind and Current Charts]51
VI.[His Physical Geography of the Sea]66
VII.[His Extra-professional Interests]85
VIII.[His Treatment by the “Retiring Board”]107
IX.[Shadows of Coming Troubles]118
X.[As His Friends and Family Knew Him before the War]128
XI.[His Part in the Civil War: In Virginia]143
XII.[His Part in the Civil War: In England]168
XIII.[With Maximilian in Mexico]186
XIV.[Reunited with His Family in England]202
XV.[His Last Years in Virginia]220
XVI.[His Posthumous Reputation]242

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS