The Cradle of the Deep

About this eBook

Author

Lowell, Joan, 1900-1967

Title

The cradle of the deep

Original Publication

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929.

Credits

This eBook was produced by: Al Haines, Pat McCoy & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at www.pgdpcanada.net, produced from images generously made available by Internet Archive.

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Seafaring life -- Oceania

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75093

Release Date

January 12, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.1 “I spit a curve in the wind” — 2 In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle — 3 “A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches. — 4 In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water — 5 Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it? — 6 A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss — 7 A runaway sea horse — 8 We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her— — 9 In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same — 10 A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex — 11 “The Sea gives up its dead” — 12 A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose — 13 Ideas about Women — 14 I find navigating on shore full of shoals — 15 From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives — 16 The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born! — 17 Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other — 18 A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall — 19 The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu — 20 A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning — 21

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