PREFACE
(to First Edition)
First Subscription Edition—Limited 700 Copies
The stencil sheets from which this edition was printed have been destroyed by the author.
This cruise was undertaken on my part as rest for a set of frazzled nerves and tired eyes and to limber up a back slowly recovering from an oldtime injury. Henry and Scotty went just naturally cause they had to.
With the passing of the sailing ship much of the language of the sea will also pass away and so in writing this log I have used all the nautical terms I could think of and some I couldn’t think of.
I am indebted to Alice H. Plummer for pictorial conception of “Scotty” on the following pages and to A. M. Lofgren for her successful struggle with my language on a typewriter.
The delay in completing this home made, hand turned bit of mission furniture has been due to the constant quarrels between those engaged in its production. The author and editor came to blows over the gender of “mimi,” the illustrator claimed it impossible to give artistic expression to poetic thought by pecking a sheet of waxed paper with a meat skewer and as a climax to this fiasco the captain of theMascot informed the publisher that he, together with all the subscription moneys, had left for some faraway land with which this country has no extradition treaty.
With many apologies for many faults and with a solemn promise to never do so any more, I sign myself for the last time
The AuthorThe IllustratorThe EditorThe PublisherThe PrinterThe BinderandThe Captain of the Mascot.
Henry M Plummer
NOTE
The letters beside the page numbers refer to sketch maps at end of the book. Continuous line, southern course; broken line, northern course.