The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas |
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... sails . It is not strange , therefore , that I should return . to the coast . When , at the age of thirty , I found myself happily rid of a commercial venture - con- ducted for ten years half - heartedly and with insig- nificant results ...
... sails . It is not strange , therefore , that I should return . to the coast . When , at the age of thirty , I found myself happily rid of a commercial venture - con- ducted for ten years half - heartedly and with insig- nificant results ...
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... sail around the world alone . I would have given all that I possessed to have gone with him , and for a few moments I think I even contemplated a similar undertaking . But as I did not then know a gaff from a flying - jib , and ...
... sail around the world alone . I would have given all that I possessed to have gone with him , and for a few moments I think I even contemplated a similar undertaking . But as I did not then know a gaff from a flying - jib , and ...
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... sail . She was wider , too , in pro- portion to her length , and her cabins seemed rather curiously disposed . A man laboring up the slope He had just inves- " Cost a million , took 20 Overhaul the Steam Yacht, Billowcrest.
... sail . She was wider , too , in pro- portion to her length , and her cabins seemed rather curiously disposed . A man laboring up the slope He had just inves- " Cost a million , took 20 Overhaul the Steam Yacht, Billowcrest.
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... sailing rig , her coal could be economized , and used only when absolutely neces- sary . Her light draught makes it possible to take her into almost any waters . The shape of her hull and her strength are calculated to withstand an ice ...
... sailing rig , her coal could be economized , and used only when absolutely neces- sary . Her light draught makes it possible to take her into almost any waters . The shape of her hull and her strength are calculated to withstand an ice ...
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... " Are you ready to start in a week for the South Pole ? " Admiral , " said the Captain solemnly , and mak- ing a sincere effort to fix him with both eyes at once , you own this boat and I'm hired to sail it ALL THINGS BECOME POSSIBLE . 57.
... " Are you ready to start in a week for the South Pole ? " Admiral , " said the Captain solemnly , and mak- ing a sincere effort to fix him with both eyes at once , you own this boat and I'm hired to sail it ALL THINGS BECOME POSSIBLE . 57.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
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Página 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Página 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.