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... wanted to bring me up to his own trade , but nothing would serve me but the sea . I was always down at the stairs amongst the watermen , or aboard the coal brigs and the barges . Fine ships were built and repaired - West - Indiamen and ...
... wanted to bring me up to his own trade , but nothing would serve me but the sea . I was always down at the stairs amongst the watermen , or aboard the coal brigs and the barges . Fine ships were built and repaired - West - Indiamen and ...
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... wanted , they'd give me a tap on the head or across the knuckles with a marline - spike , and that was worse than the ruler my old Rotherhithe schoolmaster used to rap my knuckles with - though I'm ashamed to say that it wasn't often ...
... wanted , they'd give me a tap on the head or across the knuckles with a marline - spike , and that was worse than the ruler my old Rotherhithe schoolmaster used to rap my knuckles with - though I'm ashamed to say that it wasn't often ...
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... wanted to look spry , but the beast ran out the lines , and went down , and died at the bottom . There she hung by the lines all night . Next day we got lines out over the ice , and made fast to the others , and heaved away at the ...
... wanted to look spry , but the beast ran out the lines , and went down , and died at the bottom . There she hung by the lines all night . Next day we got lines out over the ice , and made fast to the others , and heaved away at the ...
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... wanted for me to do , and if it had been to do below , I wasn't my own man enough to have tried it . I went back to the fore - peak , and , feeling most ravenous for food , ate till I could eat no longer , took a drink , flung myself ...
... wanted for me to do , and if it had been to do below , I wasn't my own man enough to have tried it . I went back to the fore - peak , and , feeling most ravenous for food , ate till I could eat no longer , took a drink , flung myself ...
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... wanted with me ; but it might have been too late , as it nearly was . Here had I not only timekeepers , you must observe , young gentlemen , but the only means to make use of any other instrument to know where I was , much more to find ...
... wanted with me ; but it might have been too late , as it nearly was . Here had I not only timekeepers , you must observe , young gentlemen , but the only means to make use of any other instrument to know where I was , much more to find ...
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