The Character of the Sea
in Appleton's Booklovers Magazine (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Vol. 7, Nr. 1 (Jan 1906): 
pp.2–130
- Subsequently extracted as Initiation: A Discourse Concerning the "Name" of Ships and the Character of the Sea in Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh, UK) (Jan 1906)
- Collected as Initiation in The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
- Subsequently extracted as Broken By The Sea in Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser (Manchester, UK) (Feb 13, 1906)
- Subsequently serialized as Le miroir de la mer (Initiation) in Le Divan (Paris, France) (Jan 1913)
- Subsequently serialized as Initiation in Le Correspondant (Paris, France) (Apr 10, 1924)
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Illustrated by W. J. Aylward.
Section XXXVI of "The Mirror of the Sea", "Initiation"