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... five hogsheads of sugar on board , there came on a hurricane , preceded by ominous split- ting noises in the air . This storm raged from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the following evening . Told's ship parted all her three ...
... five hogsheads of sugar on board , there came on a hurricane , preceded by ominous split- ting noises in the air . This storm raged from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the following evening . Told's ship parted all her three ...
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... five hours , and he became more lively and active than before . On the voyage home an accident happened strikingly evidencing the superstitions then prevalent among sailors of even some education . Five weeks after losing sight of the ...
... five hours , and he became more lively and active than before . On the voyage home an accident happened strikingly evidencing the superstitions then prevalent among sailors of even some education . Five weeks after losing sight of the ...
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... five hundred and six hundred years ago . " The Old Brazil was of course simply a Fata Morgana , brilliantly vivid , and seen in an unusual latitude - an optical illusion in the world's camera , very curious as a phenomenon , but quite ...
... five hundred and six hundred years ago . " The Old Brazil was of course simply a Fata Morgana , brilliantly vivid , and seen in an unusual latitude - an optical illusion in the world's camera , very curious as a phenomenon , but quite ...
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... five men able to work the ship , we , with the greatest and most elaborate toil , reached the West Indies in three weeks . Upon the ship's arrival there the owner of her made the cooper a present of sixty pounds for his services on ...
... five men able to work the ship , we , with the greatest and most elaborate toil , reached the West Indies in three weeks . Upon the ship's arrival there the owner of her made the cooper a present of sixty pounds for his services on ...
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... five weeks , during the whole of which time they had neither cooked provisions nor dry clothes . On his return home , off the Isle of Wight , poor Told , eager for home and rest , was seized ( according to the cruel and arbitrary custom ...
... five weeks , during the whole of which time they had neither cooked provisions nor dry clothes . On his return home , off the Isle of Wight , poor Told , eager for home and rest , was seized ( according to the cruel and arbitrary custom ...
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