Chapter I: Introduction

I. The Shipwreck II. Stage-coach Views III. The Plains Of Nauset IV. The Beach V. The Wellfleet Oysterman VI. The Beach Again VII. Across the Cape VIII. The Highland Light IX. The Sea and the Desert X. Provincetown

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Clam-Digger (Photogravure) Cohasset—The little cove at Whitehead promontory An old windmill A street in Sandwich The old Higgins tavern at Orleans A Nauset lane Nauset Bay A scarecrow Millennium Grove camp-meeting grounds A Cape Cod citizen Wreckage under the sand-bluff Herring River at Wellfleet A characteristic gable with many windows A Wellfleet oysterman Wellfleet Hunting for a leak Truro—Starting on a voyage Unloading the day’s catch A Truro footpath Truro meeting-house on the hill A herd of cows Pond Village Dragging a dory up on the beach An old wrecker at home The Highland Light Towing along shore A cranberry meadow The sand dunes drifting in upon the trees The white breakers on the Atlantic side In Provincetown harbor Provincetown—A bit of the village from the wharf The day of rest A Provincetown fishing-vessel