LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Cape Horn bearing northwest, distant fifteen miles Frontispiece
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The course of the “Hosea Higgins” 13
The companion-way 18
Plan of cabin 28
Forty to the minute 48
Mending sails in fine weather 53
Overhauling the “Venturer” 84
“Blow, my bully boys, blow” 104
“Eight bells” 127
A fifty-foot Cape Horn gray-beard 212
The ablest seaman in the ship 303
The four-masted British ship “Loch Torridon” 333
Tarring down 358
Hauling taut the braces 387

The course of the “Hosea Higgins”