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Title: The Sea-Wolf

Author: Jack London

Release Date: February 3, 2010 [eBook #1074]
First released: October 15, 1997

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1917 William Heinemann edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

THE SEA-WOLF

BY
JACK LONDON

AUTHOR OF
"THE CALL OF THE WILD," "THE FAITH OF MEN,"
ETC.

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_POPULAR EDITION_.

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LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1917

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_First published_, _November_ 1904.

_New Impression_, _December_ 1904, _April_ 1908.

_Popular Edition_, _July_ 1910; _New Impressions_, _March_ 1912,
_September_ 1912, _November_ 1913, _May_ 1915, _May_ 1916, _July_ 1917.

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_Copyright_, _London_, _William Heinemann_, 1904

CHAPTER I

I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the
cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept a summer cottage
in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied
it except when he loafed through the winter mouths and read Nietzsche and
Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat
out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had
it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and
to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning
would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.

Not but that I was afloat in a safe craft, for the _Martinez_ was a new
ferry-steamer, making her fourth or fifth trip on the run between
Sausalito and San Francisco. The danger lay in the heav