The cradle of the deep
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1. Front matter2. 1 “I spit a curve in the wind”3. 2 In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle4. 3 “A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches.5. 4 In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water6. 5 Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it?7. 6 A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss8. 7 A runaway sea horse9. 8 We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her—10. 9 In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same11. 10 A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex12. 11 “The Sea gives up its dead”13. 12 A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose14. 13 Ideas about Women15. 14 I find navigating on shore full of shoals16. 15 From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives17. 16 The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born!18. 17 Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other19. 18 A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall20. 19 The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu21. 20 A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning22. 21