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Chronology -- Introduction -- A note on the text -- Poetry -- Nicias moriturus -- Trade winds -- Cardigan Bay -- Bill -- [Bidding goodbye] -- Sea-fever -- Burial party -- Sorrow o' Mydath -- Mother Carey -- Fever-chills -- 'Port o' many ships' -- D'Avalos' prayer -- One of the bo'sun's yarns -- Sea-change -- One of Wally's yarns -- Cape Horn gospel-I -- Cape Horn gospel-II -- A ballad of John Silver -- Lyrics from The Buccaneer -- Spunyarn -- Personal -- [An inscription for Salt-Water Ballads] -- Cargoes -- Blind man's vigil -- Spanish waters -- Roadways -- Captain Stratton's fancy -- St. Mary's bells -- The emigrant -- Christmas, 1903 -- An old song re-sung -- A song -- The Gara Brook -- A whaler's song -- The Greenwich pensioner -- Posted as missing -- Campeachy picture -- A pleasant new comfortable ballad upon the death of Mr Israel Hands, executed for piracy -- Third mate -- Truth -- Ships -- The Gara River -- The pathfinder -- The wanderer -- The crowd -- Posted -- If -- I saw her here -- After forty years -- A seaman's prayer -- Number 534 -- The eyes -- Canal zone -- To the seamen -- Crews coming down gangways -- Give way -- Short stories -- Sea superstition -- A sailor's yarn -- Port of many ships -- A Spanish sailor's yarn -- The yarn of Lanky Job -- In dock-I -- Don Alfonso's treasure hunt -- In a fo'c's'le -- Anty Bligh -- The devil and the deep sea -- In dock -- II -- A Port Royal twister -- Ambitious Jimmy Hicks -- The Cape Horn calm -- The yarn of Happy Jack -- The bottom of the well -- One Sunday -- A white night -- Davy Jones's gift -- Being ashore -- In the roost -- A steerage steward -- On growing old -- A memory -- Ghosts -- Big Jim -- El Dorado -- The western islands -- Other prose -- Autobiography -- Deep sea yarns [Book review of Conrad's Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories] -- On the sea and sailors -- The rose of Spain [Book review of Conrad and Hueffer's Romance] -- The sea writers: Captain Frederick Marryat, Herman Melville, R.H. Dana -- Chanties -- New novels: Joseph Conrad [Book review of Conrad's 'Twixt Land and Sea] -- Sailing-ships -- Extracts from novels -- From Lost endeavor -- From The bird of dawning -- From The box of delights -- From Victorious Troy -- From Live and kicking Ned -- Glossary of nautical terms. |
