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1 AMERICAN SEA WRITING A Literary Anthology Peter Neill, editor Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick A S P E C I A L P U B L I C A T I O N OF T H E L I B R A R Y OF A M E R I C A

2 Contents Foreword, by Nathaniel Philbrick Introduction, by Peter Neill xiii xix WILLIAM STRACHEY from A True Reportory of the Wrack and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight / WILLIAM BRADFORD from History of Plymouth Plantation 5 ROGER WILLIAMS Of the Sea 9 COTTON MATHER from Magnalia Christi Americana 13 WILLIAM WALLING The Wonderful Providence of God Exemplified in the Preservation of William Walling 16 OLAUDAH EQUIANO from The Interesting Narrative of the Life 26 J. HECTOR ST. JOHN CREVECOEUR from Peculiar Customs at Nantucket 34 JOHN LEDYARD from A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage 33 WILLIAM CLARK frpm The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition DAVID PORTER from Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean 52 VII

3 WASHINGTON IRVING AMASA The Voyage 58 DELANO from A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres 65 OWEN CHASE from Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, of Nantucket 70 WILLIAM LAY AND CYRUS M. HUSSEY from A Narrative of the Mutiny On Board the Ship Globe 80 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER from The Pilot 88 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Oldlronsides 99 FANNY KEMBLE from Journal of a Young Actress NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS from A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean.... m RALPH WALDO EMERSON from Journals 118 EDGAR ALLAN POE MS. Found in a Bottle 128 RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. from Two Years Before the Mast 140 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Foot-prints on the Sea-shore 164 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Wreck of the Hesperus iy5 WILLIAM REYNOLDS from Voyage to the Southern Ocean 139 VIII

4 HENRY DAVID THOREAU from Cape Cod 192 HERMAN MELVILLE from Mardi: "A Calm" 199 from White-Jacket: "The last of the Jacket" from Moby-Dick: "Midnight, Forecastle" 2o5 "Brit" 2ii "The Grand Armada" 214 from Israel Potter: "They Fight the Serapis" J The Tuft of Kelp 239 GEORGE HENRY PREBLE from The Opening of Japan 240 WALT WHITMAN As I Ebb 'd with the Ocean of Life 246 The World below the Brine 249 A Paumanok Picture 25o A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach 25o Sea-Shore Fancies 25i MARY ROWLAND from Remarks on Board Brig Thomas W. Roland..253 SAMUEL DANA GREENE from In the Monitors Turret 264 RAPHAEL SEMMES from Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 234 CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous 2j8 CELIA THAXTER from Among the Isles of the Shoals 294 JAMES H. WILLIAMS Betrayed 307 LAFCADIO HEARN from Chita: A Memory of Last Island 331 ix

5 MARK TWAIN from About All Kinds of Ships STEPHEN CRANE The Open Boat 347 RICHARD HARDING DAVIS from The Voyage of the Transports J7J JOSHUA SLOCUM from Sailing Alone Around the World 381 JACK LONDON A Royal Sport 393 ALFRED THAYER MAHAN from From Sail to Steam 404 EUGENE O'NEILL He 423 LANGSTON HUGHES from The Big Sea 440 MARIANNE MOORE The Fish 452 HENRY BESTON The Headlong Wave 454 HART CRANE Cutty Sark 464 ERNEST HEMINGWAY After the Storm 468 WILLIAM BEEBE from A Descent Into Perpetual Night 475 CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER The Captain s Table 487 JAMES THURBER The Story of Sailing 493

6 JAMES AGEE Havana Cruise 497 JOHN STEINBECK from Sea of Corte\ 5i6 ALVIN KERNAN Cruising 520 EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER The Death of Sergeant Alex 5j7 ROBERT LOWELL The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 554 ELIZABETH BISHOP At the Fishhouses 559 RACHEL CARSON The Marginal World 562 PETER MATTHIESSEN Under Montauk Light 569 GARY SNYDER Oil 583 JOSEPH MITCHELL The Bottom of the Harbor 584 GEORGE OPPEN Product 609 E. B. WHITE The Sea and the Wind That Blows 610 SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON An August Day's Sail 614 BARRY LOPEZ A Presentation of Whales 618 SYLVIA A. EARLE from S e a Change: A Message of the Oceans XI

7 STEPHEN J. PYNE from The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica 649 JOHN MCPHEE from Looking for a Ship Acknowledgments and Sources 65j 66y XII

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