Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are PastHarper, 1886 - 245 páginas |
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... risk , and that object was success- fully accomplished . The following letter contains the first intimation of his intention . At the time it was written he was three months short of twenty - four years of age : LETTER TO HIS FATHER ...
... risk , and that object was success- fully accomplished . The following letter contains the first intimation of his intention . At the time it was written he was three months short of twenty - four years of age : LETTER TO HIS FATHER ...
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... risk all in endeavoring to do something rather than spending moderately and living lazily at home . To explain myself then : I have pur- chased a cutter - sloop , of forty - three tons ' burden , on a credit of two years . This vessel ...
... risk all in endeavoring to do something rather than spending moderately and living lazily at home . To explain myself then : I have pur- chased a cutter - sloop , of forty - three tons ' burden , on a credit of two years . This vessel ...
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... risk myself . It should be made on the vessel- the sloop Caroline of Salem - a French bottom , but with papers in complete order , and manned with Americans . We are bound direct for the Isles of France and Bourbon . Before you make ...
... risk myself . It should be made on the vessel- the sloop Caroline of Salem - a French bottom , but with papers in complete order , and manned with Americans . We are bound direct for the Isles of France and Bourbon . Before you make ...
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... risk of destruction ; and as the danger was incalculably increased by the circumstances attendant upon it , these letters possess especial interest , showing as they do his recognition of the difficulties he had to encounter , by the ...
... risk of destruction ; and as the danger was incalculably increased by the circumstances attendant upon it , these letters possess especial interest , showing as they do his recognition of the difficulties he had to encounter , by the ...
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... risk of capture by the Ind- ians , after arriving on the coast of America , made it necessary to carry a much larger crew than the ordinary complement of a vessel of that size . The only men that could be had , however , were of the ...
... risk of capture by the Ind- ians , after arriving on the coast of America , made it necessary to carry a much larger crew than the ordinary complement of a vessel of that size . The only men that could be had , however , were of the ...
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Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past Richard Jeffry Cleveland Vista completa - 1886 |
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Página 132 - A soldier's fauchion, and a seaman's oar. Thus was his friend interr'd; and deathless fame Still to the lofty cape consigns his name.