It was a bleak, gloomy day in January when I first beheld her.

THE

LOG OF A SEA-WAIF

BEING RECOLLECTIONS OF
THE FIRST FOUR YEARS
OF MY SEA LIFE

BY

FRANK T. BULLEN, F.R. G. S.

Author of The Cruise of the Cachalot,

Idylls of the Sea, Etc.

INTERO

OFOLIA

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1899,

By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

ΤΟ

J. ST. LOE STRACHEY,

IN

GRATEFUL RECOGNITION

OF HIS UNWEARYING ENCOURAGEMENT OF AND

PERSISTENT KINDNESS TO THE AUTHOR,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.