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... clear up , and I had my share of it to do , I can assure you , young gentlemen . The night before we finished making off the blubber one of the Shetlanders died . He was ailing when he came aboard . The night he died I'd taken him ...
... clear up , and I had my share of it to do , I can assure you , young gentlemen . The night before we finished making off the blubber one of the Shetlanders died . He was ailing when he came aboard . The night he died I'd taken him ...
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... clear water , but we couldn't warp out to it , so the sight of it only made us more miserable somehow . When November came , the cold was downright awful - more than 40 degrees below zero some- times , and 32 above is freezing point ...
... clear water , but we couldn't warp out to it , so the sight of it only made us more miserable somehow . When November came , the cold was downright awful - more than 40 degrees below zero some- times , and 32 above is freezing point ...
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... clear away , for all the foot and a - half of steel he'd been skewered with . Another time I was going back to the ship from the wooden hut the skipper had put up on the ice . There'd been one of those white devils behind waiting for me ...
... clear away , for all the foot and a - half of steel he'd been skewered with . Another time I was going back to the ship from the wooden hut the skipper had put up on the ice . There'd been one of those white devils behind waiting for me ...
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... clear water in sight , and they've had to unship the rudder again . " After a bit the swell went down , but we went on bumping about , just according as the wind blew . The first day I got on deck , I mind seeing Dark Hook pretty nigh ...
... clear water in sight , and they've had to unship the rudder again . " After a bit the swell went down , but we went on bumping about , just according as the wind blew . The first day I got on deck , I mind seeing Dark Hook pretty nigh ...
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... clear them . A good many of the casks had got their heads burst by the water freezing in- side ' em , so we smashed up the ice , and mended the casks . There was I that wouldn't be a cooper , doing coopering up in the Arctic regions . I ...
... clear them . A good many of the casks had got their heads burst by the water freezing in- side ' em , so we smashed up the ice , and mended the casks . There was I that wouldn't be a cooper , doing coopering up in the Arctic regions . I ...
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