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The cradle of the deep

Capitula (22)

1 “I spit a curve in the wind” 0:00
1 “I spit a curve in the wind” 0:53
2 In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle 19:21
3 “A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches. 28:43
4 In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water 40:21
5 Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it? 59:49
6 A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss 1:09:15
7 A runaway sea horse 1:21:24
8 We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her— 1:36:32
9 In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same 1:50:21
10 A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex 2:00:46
11 “The Sea gives up its dead” 2:10:38
12 A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose 2:33:20
13 Ideas about Women 2:51:20
14 I find navigating on shore full of shoals 3:09:35
15 From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives 3:28:21
16 The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born! 3:53:12
17 Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other 4:07:53
18 A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall 4:22:36
19 The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu 4:37:54
20 A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning 5:04:55
21 5:21:57