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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... we shall soon be in the region of bonitos , albatrosses , and flying fish - only a fortnight after leaving England ! Our second Sunday at sea was beautiful exceedingly . We had service in the saloon as usual , and FLYING SOUTH . 29.
... we shall soon be in the region of bonitos , albatrosses , and flying fish - only a fortnight after leaving England ! Our second Sunday at sea was beautiful exceedingly . We had service in the saloon as usual , and FLYING SOUTH . 29.
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... usual , and after church I climbed the mizzen , and had half an hour's nap on the top . Truly this warm weather and monotonous sea life seems very favorable for dreaming , and mooning , and loafing . In the evening there was some very ...
... usual , and after church I climbed the mizzen , and had half an hour's nap on the top . Truly this warm weather and monotonous sea life seems very favorable for dreaming , and mooning , and loafing . In the evening there was some very ...
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... usual- ly caught from the jibboom and the martingale , as they play about the bows of the ship . The only bait is a piece of white rag , which is bobbed upon the surface of the water to imitate a flying fish . But what interests us more ...
... usual- ly caught from the jibboom and the martingale , as they play about the bows of the ship . The only bait is a piece of white rag , which is bobbed upon the surface of the water to imitate a flying fish . But what interests us more ...
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... usual testimonial to the captain is set on foot , all being alike ready to bear testi- mony to his courtesy and seamanship . On deck , the men begin to holystone the planks , polish up the brass- work , and make every thing shipshape ...
... usual testimonial to the captain is set on foot , all being alike ready to bear testi- mony to his courtesy and seamanship . On deck , the men begin to holystone the planks , polish up the brass- work , and make every thing shipshape ...
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... usual on such occa- sions . Certainly the lady and I did not hit it at all . She asked me if I had heard such and such a Scotch minis- ter , or had read somebody's sermons which she named . Alas ! I had not so much as heard of their ...
... usual on such occa- sions . Certainly the lady and I did not hit it at all . She asked me if I had heard such and such a Scotch minis- ter , or had read somebody's sermons which she named . Alas ! I had not so much as heard of their ...
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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.