A Boy's Voyage Round the World: Including a Residence in Victoria, and a Journey by Rail Across North AmericaSamuel Smiles John Murray, 1871 - 304 páginas |
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... pretty well cleared , but white with frost , while the river banks were covered with snow . Other ships were passing down stream , each with its tug ; but we soon distanced them all , especially when the men flung the sails to the wind ...
... pretty well cleared , but white with frost , while the river banks were covered with snow . Other ships were passing down stream , each with its tug ; but we soon distanced them all , especially when the men flung the sails to the wind ...
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... pretty soundly . Once I was awakened by a tremendous noise outside — something like a gun going off . I afterward found it had been occasioned by the mainsail being blown away to sea , right out of the bolt - ropes , the fastenings of ...
... pretty soundly . Once I was awakened by a tremendous noise outside — something like a gun going off . I afterward found it had been occasioned by the mainsail being blown away to sea , right out of the bolt - ropes , the fastenings of ...
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... pretty much gone , and here and there the bare stanchions , or posts , were left stand- ing , splitting in two the waves which broke clear over her deck , lying almost even with the sea . She turned out to be the " Rosa , " of Guernsey ...
... pretty much gone , and here and there the bare stanchions , or posts , were left stand- ing , splitting in two the waves which broke clear over her deck , lying almost even with the sea . She turned out to be the " Rosa , " of Guernsey ...
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... pretty steadily at this part of our course in a southwesterly direction , and may generally be depended upon until we near the equator . At midday of the tenth day I find we have run 180 miles in the last twenty - four hours , with the ...
... pretty steadily at this part of our course in a southwesterly direction , and may generally be depended upon until we near the equator . At midday of the tenth day I find we have run 180 miles in the last twenty - four hours , with the ...
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... pretty girls . Indeed the Major , who is very good at drawing the long bow , declared that he could see a very interesting female waving her hand to him from a rock ! With the help of the telescope we could certain- ly see some of the ...
... pretty girls . Indeed the Major , who is very good at drawing the long bow , declared that he could see a very interesting female waving her hand to him from a rock ! With the help of the telescope we could certain- ly see some of the ...
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Página 226 - Clatter' as much as a few years ago they would have enjoyed the roasting of a missionary or the baking of a baby? "It was certainly a page in one's life never to be forgotten.