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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... rolling of things about my cabin floor . I had some difficulty in dressing , not having yet found my sea - legs ; but I suc- ceeded in gaining the companion - ladder and reaching the poop . I found the wind had gone quite round in the ...
... rolling of things about my cabin floor . I had some difficulty in dressing , not having yet found my sea - legs ; but I suc- ceeded in gaining the companion - ladder and reaching the poop . I found the wind had gone quite round in the ...
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... rolling a great deal , beating up against the wind that was impelling us so prosperously forward . I hope she will report us on ar- rival , to let friends at home know we are so far all right on our voyage . The wind still continues to ...
... rolling a great deal , beating up against the wind that was impelling us so prosperously forward . I hope she will report us on ar- rival , to let friends at home know we are so far all right on our voyage . The wind still continues to ...
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... rolling about the ship - most inelegant brutes , some three or four times the size of a porpoise . Each in turn comes up , throws himself round on the top of the sea , exposing nearly half his body , and then rolls off again . To - day ...
... rolling about the ship - most inelegant brutes , some three or four times the size of a porpoise . Each in turn comes up , throws himself round on the top of the sea , exposing nearly half his body , and then rolls off again . To - day ...
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... rolling after us , breaking along each side of the ship . I was a personal sufferer by the gale . I had scarcely got on deck when the wind whisked off my Scotch cap with the silver thistle in it , and blew it away to sea . Then , in ...
... rolling after us , breaking along each side of the ship . I was a personal sufferer by the gale . I had scarcely got on deck when the wind whisked off my Scotch cap with the silver thistle in it , and blew it away to sea . Then , in ...
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... rolling of the ship . The mizzen mast strained and creaked ; chairs had broken loose in the saloon ; crockery was knocking about and smashing up in the steward's pantry . In the cabin adjoining , the water - can and bath were rambling ...
... rolling of the ship . The mizzen mast strained and creaked ; chairs had broken loose in the saloon ; crockery was knocking about and smashing up in the steward's pantry . In the cabin adjoining , the water - can and bath were rambling ...
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