a magna opus of sea-going memoires, a autobiography a myth of time, the epitaph of a sailor, the grieving widow the Columbus of a new era, the stagnant plum, the orchid of willow, the weeping of the lost head, the tower of London the effigy of paris, the Van gogh of florence, the nightengale the spring it gathers, the thrust of harpoon, the Sea-going yachts, the reefs over the Rip, the Port Phillip bays the river of paddle, the steamer, the Atlantic shoals the refuge of paris, the Titanic of sail