PAGE David Goes Voyaging 3 We Start on Our Cruise 13 The Galápagos Islands 23 Tower Island 31 The Volcano 41 A Day Ashore 47 The Diving Helmet 53 The Shipwrecked Man 59 Hood Island 65 A Day on Shipboard 73 Dredging 79 Panama 85 Cocos Island 91 May 20th, 1925 99 Weeks at Sea 105 Tagus Cove 111 The Giant Devil Fish 119 Molten Lava 125 Song to Davie Putnam 131 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE “I Lifted a Frigate Bird Off His Nest” Frontispiece Using a Net from the Boom 4 David and an Albatross 6 In the Pulpit at the Bow 8 These Lizards Bite if They Get a Chance 26 The Frigate Birds are Unbelievably Tame 32 Diving in a Rock Pool at Darwin Bay 36 The First View of the Volcano on Albemarle 42 In the Diving Helmet, Standing in Front of Shark Cage 54 Dwight Franklin’s Pirate Sketch 60 Examining a Haul 74 On Deck with “Pinkie” the Penguin 76 Inspecting a Deep-Sea Haul 86 The Pirate 88 The Arcturus at Cocos Island 92 Ashore at Chatham Bay, Cocos Island 94 The Birthday Party 100 Don’s Birthday Card 102 With “Fury,” Don’s Famous Cutlass 104 Chiriqui, Dyna, the Dog-House and David 108 Reading from Left to Right, David, Don and Bozo, the Young Sea-Lion 112 Entering Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island 114 The 46-Pound Tuna 120 The 18-Foot Devil-Fish on the Deck of the Arcturus 122 Where the Molten Lava Poured into the Sea 128 DAVID GOES VOYAGING Mr. Beebe lets me call him Uncle Will, even if he is the head of this big expedition. He was awfully nice to let me go on part of it.