LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Diagram of the Liberdade]
[The Liberdade]
MAP
[Course of the Liberdade from Paranagua to Barbadoes]
GREETING
This literary craft of mine, in its native model and rig, goes out laden with the facts of the strange happenings on a home afloat. Her constructor, a sailor for many years, could have put a whole cargo of salt, so to speak, in the little packet; but would not so wantonly intrude on this domain of longshore navigators. Could the author and constructor but box-haul, club-haul, tops'l-haul, and catharpin like the briny sailors of the strand, ah me!—and hope to be forgiven!