The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 страници |
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... The storm that wrecks the winter sky . " His vessel with all on board had disappeared somewhere in the dark dark waters below Cape Horn more than twenty years before . I had inherited 15 Turning to the Sea, at Last, for Solace.
... The storm that wrecks the winter sky . " His vessel with all on board had disappeared somewhere in the dark dark waters below Cape Horn more than twenty years before . I had inherited 15 Turning to the Sea, at Last, for Solace.
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... vessel was anchored . Looking down on her from above it was evident , even to my unprofessional eye , that she was an unusual craft . Her hull was painted white like that of a pleasure yacht and its model appeared to have been ...
... vessel was anchored . Looking down on her from above it was evident , even to my unprofessional eye , that she was an unusual craft . Her hull was painted white like that of a pleasure yacht and its model appeared to have been ...
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... vessel would result from these con- ditions . As I drew nearer I was still further impressed with her remarkable breadth of beam , suggesting comfort rather than speed , and by the unusual flare and flatness of her hull , reminding me ...
... vessel would result from these con- ditions . As I drew nearer I was still further impressed with her remarkable breadth of beam , suggesting comfort rather than speed , and by the unusual flare and flatness of her hull , reminding me ...
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... vessel casually I halted at last in front of the gangway . " I should like to come on board , " I said . The polyglot dissented . " No admit . Mis'r Gale command . " " Is Mr. Gale himself on board ? " I assumed a manner of severity with ...
... vessel casually I halted at last in front of the gangway . " I should like to come on board , " I said . The polyglot dissented . " No admit . Mis'r Gale command . " " Is Mr. Gale himself on board ? " I assumed a manner of severity with ...
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... vessel might meet with less formidable obstructions in the way of field ice , and perhaps reach the ice barrier at no great distance from the habitable circle beyond . It even might be possible , I said , to follow this current directly ...
... vessel might meet with less formidable obstructions in the way of field ice , and perhaps reach the ice barrier at no great distance from the habitable circle beyond . It even might be possible , I said , to follow this current directly ...
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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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