43 Quotes by Joshua Slocum

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.

I never saw it rain harder even in Australia. But they were out for fun, and rain could not dampen their feelings, however hard it poured.

The first name on the Spray's visitors' book in the home port was written by the one who always said, 'The Spray will come back.'

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.