Sagas of the Seas by American Writers

The Voyage of the Mayflower, 1620 [excerpt from "Of Plymouth Plantation"] Governor William Bradford The Bon Homme Richard John Paul Jones The Chase and the Capture J. Cobb The Privateer James Fenimore Cooper The Main-Truck Anonymous [actually by William Leggett] The Log of the Arethusa William Hussey Macey Leviathan J. Ross Browne An Old-Time Mate Roland F. Coffin The Gale Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Flogging Richard Henry Dana, Jr. The Slave Trade Willis J. Abbot Ms. Found in a Bottle Edgar Allan Poe "Mother Carey's Chickens" J. Cobb The Frozen North Elisha Kent Kane The Enchanted Valley Herman Melville The Superstitious Seaman Thomas Gibbons The Race It Blew James B. Connolly Riley Hall and Nordhoff