Excerpt from Sailing Alone Around the World Rounding the Cape of Storms in olden time - A rough Christmas The Spray ties up for a three months' rest at Cape Town A railway trip to the Transvaal President Kruger's odd definition of the Spray's voyage His terse sayings Distinguished guests on the Spray - Cocoanut fiber as a padlock - Courtesies from the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.