DISPOSAL OF THE LIBERDADE: PAGE 117




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Diagram of the _Liberdade_ 52

The _Liberdade_ 62


MAP

Course of the _Liberdade_ from Paranagua to Barbadoes 69




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