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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Every hour that I was not in school, found me down at the wharves

Messina Clarke was a small man but tough

Turning back to me, Donald McKay demanded, “An’ what mak’s ye come to me for a position?”

Here I felt at home and here I had passed the happiest hours of my life

Old Messina Clarke

The Flying Cloud … lay at the water’s edge

I kissed my mother good-by

By twelve noon I went aboard my ship

Sail-plan of the clipper

Captain Creesy saw the men coming and stopped in his stride

Up the narrowing web of the shrouds Sneed fled with the mate at his heels

Sometimes of an early evening, Brick and I … would climb hand over hand to the upper rigging

We had picked up the southeast trades

The single peak … reared like a gigantic finger

“Go ahead then!” the mate yelled, beside himself by now

“Stern all!” yelled the mate, and the boat was instantly oared backward to clear the whale

The breeze had freshened, and Captain Creesy gave the order to return to the Flying Cloud

One of the men … I had never seen before

There was a ship out there beating across the bay with all canvas spread