Transcriber’s Note: Spelling and punctuation are non-standard. Occasional sentences end without punctuation or begin with a lower case letter. Quotation marks appear randomly through the text. A double close quote is frequently used to indicate an abbreviated word. 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:]. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Superscripts are contained within braces and preceded by a carat, e.g. III^{ter}. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and moved 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 a handwritten non-number non-letter character. Illegible handwriting is identified [TN illegible handwriting]. _Elijah Cobb_ PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF PHILIP HAMILTON McMILLAN OF THE CLASS OF 1894, YALE COLLEGE [Illustration: [From a French pastel, 1794.] “_He was tall and straight, of fine figure, his face very pleasant to look upon. He loved children & was loved by them, Distinguished for his sturdy integrity, as well as talent, loved and respected by 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_ [Illustration: colophon] _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 Yale University Press on the Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established December 12, 1922, by a gift to Yale University in pursuance of a pledge announced on Alumni University Day in February, 1922, of a fund of $100,000 bequeathed to James Thayer McMillan and Alexis Caswell Angell as Trustees, by Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson McMillan, of Detroit, to be devoted by them to the establishment of a Memorial in honor of her husband.