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... half - breed from Hudson's Bay . Some prime seamen among them , but not to be trusted ashore . Well , there was a regular grumbling about our bad luck ; for you see whalers are manned on the ' lay . ' No wages - every man has a share in ...
... half - breed from Hudson's Bay . Some prime seamen among them , but not to be trusted ashore . Well , there was a regular grumbling about our bad luck ; for you see whalers are manned on the ' lay . ' No wages - every man has a share in ...
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... half an hour we had all the silver and half - a - dozen bundles of silk in the boats . The second junk , —we had to quilt one fellow , though generally a dozen will run like sheep before one of our sort . Altogether , we made a very ...
... half an hour we had all the silver and half - a - dozen bundles of silk in the boats . The second junk , —we had to quilt one fellow , though generally a dozen will run like sheep before one of our sort . Altogether , we made a very ...
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... half- cleansed beer - barrels , so it was decided to put into Rio de Janeiro . After the running - down night , the mate had been disrated , and sent forward among the men , for it was his watch , and it seemed as if the watches in both ...
... half- cleansed beer - barrels , so it was decided to put into Rio de Janeiro . After the running - down night , the mate had been disrated , and sent forward among the men , for it was his watch , and it seemed as if the watches in both ...
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... half - naked black ; in his hand he held aloft a sort of gigantic wicker hour - glass , full of stones ; shaking and waving this like a drum - major in front of his regiment , in regular time to a song , part words , part grunts , part ...
... half - naked black ; in his hand he held aloft a sort of gigantic wicker hour - glass , full of stones ; shaking and waving this like a drum - major in front of his regiment , in regular time to a song , part words , part grunts , part ...
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... half- starved wretches among the working - classes . In strolling early in the morning through the streets where the working - classes live , the smell and sound . of meat frizzling for breakfast was almost uni- versal . On one of these ...
... half- starved wretches among the working - classes . In strolling early in the morning through the streets where the working - classes live , the smell and sound . of meat frizzling for breakfast was almost uni- versal . On one of these ...
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