Download or read book Yankee Captain and Southern Pilot written by Harold Waldo and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical sketch of Captain Josiah A. Mitchell, Master of the clipper "Hornet", including an account of his encounter with Mark Twain in Hawaii. Twain wrote a story based on the experiences of Mitchell and his crew in an open longboat in the Pacific for 43 days after the loss of the "Hornet" at sea.