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... boat -The Scilly Isles - Advantage of losing my shoes - Boat lost - I am again preserved -A night in a cave - Go in search of assistance - Hospitable reception in the island -The old mate's death - Sail for Plymouth - Spring a leak ...
... boat -The Scilly Isles - Advantage of losing my shoes - Boat lost - I am again preserved -A night in a cave - Go in search of assistance - Hospitable reception in the island -The old mate's death - Sail for Plymouth - Spring a leak ...
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... boat sinks under me - Meet an old friend- Follow his advice - Join an American vessel - Chased again - The action between the British and French ships - Land our passengers - Loss of our vessel - Get on shore at Guernsey - La Motte and ...
... boat sinks under me - Meet an old friend- Follow his advice - Join an American vessel - Chased again - The action between the British and French ships - Land our passengers - Loss of our vessel - Get on shore at Guernsey - La Motte and ...
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... boat- Picked up by a cutter bound to Plymouth - Becalmed off the Eddystone - Am again seized by a pressgang and taken on board the Cleopatra - My despair - Sail for the West Indies - A desperate battle - Overpowered by numbers - We ...
... boat- Picked up by a cutter bound to Plymouth - Becalmed off the Eddystone - Am again seized by a pressgang and taken on board the Cleopatra - My despair - Sail for the West Indies - A desperate battle - Overpowered by numbers - We ...
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... boat for a sail , or we induced one of our many acquaintances among the watermen to take us along with him to help him pull , so that we soon learned to handle an oar as well as any lads of our age , as also pretty fairly to sail a boat ...
... boat for a sail , or we induced one of our many acquaintances among the watermen to take us along with him to help him pull , so that we soon learned to handle an oar as well as any lads of our age , as also pretty fairly to sail a boat ...
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... boat - Down she goes - Our perilous voyage - Loss of another shipmate - Death of Edward Seton- My promise - A strong ... boats , but others owned fine large vessels , ships and brigs , strongly armed and manned . Though they attacked any ...
... boat - Down she goes - Our perilous voyage - Loss of another shipmate - Death of Edward Seton- My promise - A strong ... boats , but others owned fine large vessels , ships and brigs , strongly armed and manned . Though they attacked any ...
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Page 199 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 79 - There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To take care of the life of poor Jack.
Page 271 - There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed.
Page 346 - Bear down, d'ye see, To our Admiral's lee ! ' 'No, no,' says the Frenchman, 'that can't be !' ' Then I must lug you along with me !
Page 346 - Frenchman laughed and thought it stuff, But they knew not the handful of men, how tough, On board of the Arethusa. On deck five hundred men did dance, The stoutest they could find in France; We with two hundred did advance On board of the Arethusa. Our captain hailed the Frenchman, 'Ho!