The cruise of the Snark

When we sailed from San Francisco on the _Snark_ I knew as much about sickness as the Admiral of the Swiss Navy knows about salt water. And here, at the start, let me advise any...

Charmian and I looked at each other and debated silently for half a minute. Then we nodded our heads simultaneously. It is a way we have of making up our minds to do things; and...

_Sandwich Islands to Tahiti_.—_There is great difficulty in making this passage across the trades_. _The whalers and all others speak with great doubt of fetching Tahiti from th...

There are captains and captains, and some mighty fine captains, I know; but the run of the captains on the _Snark_ has been remarkably otherwise. My experience with them has bee...

On the arrival of strangers, every man endeavoured to obtain one as a friend and carry him off to his own habitation, where he is treated with the greatest kindness by the inhab...

“Spare no money,” I said to Roscoe. “Let everything on the _Snark_ be of the best. And never mind decoration. Plain pine boards is good enough finishing for me. But put the mone...

To the eastward Ua-huka was being blotted out by an evening rain-squall that was fast overtaking the _Snark_. But that little craft, her big spinnaker filled by the southeast tr...

When the _Snark_ sailed along the windward coast of Molokai, on her way to Honolulu, I looked at the chart, then pointed to a low-lying peninsula backed by a tremendous cliff va...

There are hosts of people who journey like restless spirits round and about this earth in search of seascapes and landscapes and the wonders and beauties of nature. They overrun...

I first met him on Market Street in San Francisco. It was a wet and drizzly afternoon, and he was striding along, clad solely in a pair of abbreviated knee-trousers and an abbre...

That is what it is, a royal sport for the natural kings of earth. The grass grows right down to the water at Waikiki Beach, and within fifty feet of the everlasting sea. The tre...

I had to confess that I was not a navigator, that I had never looked through a sextant in my life, and that I doubted if I could tell a sextant from a nautical almanac. And when...

It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Rosco...

No, adventure is not dead, and in spite of the steam engine and of Thomas Cook & Son. When the announcement of the contemplated voyage of the _Snark_ was made, young men of “rov...

“It will not be so monotonous at sea,” I promised my fellow-voyagers on the _Snark_. “The sea is filled with life. It is so populous that every day something new is happening. A...

Given a number of white traders, a wide area of land, and scores of savage languages and dialects, the result will be that the traders will manufacture a totally new, unscientif...

At five in the morning the conches began to blow. From all along the beach the eerie sounds arose, like the ancient voice of War, calling to the fishermen to arise and prepare t...