TO
ROBERT MACKAY

CONTENTS

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The Old Man of Sand Key,[11]
The Outcast,[37]
The Sea Dog,[77]
The Cape Horners,[101]
The Loggerhead,[135]
The White Follower,[165]
King Albicore,[199]
The Nibblers,[227]
Johnny Shark,[251]
A Tragedy of the South Atlantic,[277]
In the Wake of the Weather-Cloth,[313]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Clawing off the Cape,[Frontispiece]
Facing Page
The Great Shape Sailed for the Top of the Buoy,[44]
Full into the Center King Albicore Tore His Way,[214]
The Line Was Whizzing Out,[300]