xii, 264 pp. Engraved frontispiece. 20x12.5 cm. (8x5"), original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. First Edition. Scarce work intended, purportedly, to persuade its juvenile readers to spurn a life at sea, but perhaps merely adding to the allure of life before the mast. OCLC lists 17 copies in libraries, but there are no current retail offerings online, and no records of a sale at auction that we could find. Inscription on front free endpaper dated Victoria, B.C., 1902.