# The First Mate: The Story of a Strange Cruise

Author: Collingwood, Harry, 1851-1922; Hodgson, E. S. (Edward Smith), 1866-1937 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Adventure

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25818

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+First+Mate%3A+The+Story+of+a+Strange+Cruise+Collingwood&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The question was addressed to me in a very pleasantly modulated female voice, carrying just the slightest suspicion of an American accent. For the fraction of a second I was a wee bit startled. I had not had the ghost of a suspicion that anyone was nearer me than the gang of labourers who were busily engaged in unloading a big delivery wagon and transferring the contents, in the shape of numerous packing cases, to the deck of the vessel which I was scrutinising. It was afternoon of a grey day in the latter part of October three years ago; and the scene was one of the wharves of the east basin of the London Docks, round which I had been prowling in search of a ship. I had been thus engaged...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-first-mate-the-story-of-a-strange-cruise-25818/chapters/16/index.md)