Transcriber’s Note:
Spelling and punctuation are non-standard. Occasionalsentences end without punctuation or begin with a lower caseletter. Quotation marks appear randomly through the text. Adouble close quote is frequently used to indicate an abbreviatedword. A lower case "s" was substituted for ſ throughout the book.The letter ‘c’ with a cedilla above it is transcribed as [‘c].The letter ‘o’ with an umlaut below is transcribed as [o:].
Footnotes were renumbered sequentially andmoved to the end of the book. Footnotes [10], [11], [12], and [15]have multiple anchors. Page headers were converted to sidenotes.
In the Account of Belem Port Charges, a mid-dot was substituted for ahandwritten non-number non-letter character. Illegible handwriting isidentified [TN illegible handwriting].
Elijah Cobb
PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION
ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF
PHILIP HAMILTON McMILLAN
OF THE CLASS OF 1894, YALE COLLEGE
[From a French pastel, 1794.]
“He was tall and straight, of fine figure, his facevery pleasant to look upon. He loved children &was loved by them, Distinguished for his sturdyintegrity, as well as talent, loved and respectedby all who knew him, he died at the age of 80.”
Elijah Cobb
1768-1848
A Cape Cod Skipper
WITH A FOREWORD BY
RALPH D. PAINE
New Haven: Yale University Press
London: Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press
1925
Copyright 1925 by Yale University Press
Printed in the United States of America
THE
PHILIP HAMILTON McMILLAN
MEMORIAL PUBLICATION
FUND
The present volume is the fourth work published by the YaleUniversity Press on the Philip Hamilton McMillan MemorialPublication Fund. This Foundation was established December12, 1922, by a gift to Yale University in pursuance of a pledgeannounced on Alumni University Day in February, 1922, of afund of $100,000 bequeathed to James Thayer McMillan andAlexis Caswell Angell as Trustees, by Mrs. Elizabeth AndersonMcMillan,