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Page xiv
... schooner , during a four days ' passage between two places in the Gulf of Mexico whose names don't matter . For the most part he lay on deck aft as it were at my feet , and raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about ...
... schooner , during a four days ' passage between two places in the Gulf of Mexico whose names don't matter . For the most part he lay on deck aft as it were at my feet , and raising himself from time to time on his elbow would talk about ...
Page xv
... schooner who could have talked openly about his activities and purposes was a very snuffy and conversationally de- lightful friar , the Superior of a convent , attended by a very young lay brother , of a particularly ferocious ...
... schooner who could have talked openly about his activities and purposes was a very snuffy and conversationally de- lightful friar , the Superior of a convent , attended by a very young lay brother , of a particularly ferocious ...
Page xvi
... schooner that the " Rich man " down there was dead : He had died in the night . I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger . I looked down the skylight , and there was the devoted Martin busy cording ...
... schooner that the " Rich man " down there was dead : He had died in the night . I don't remember ever being so moved by the desolate end of a complete stranger . I looked down the skylight , and there was the devoted Martin busy cording ...
Page 8
... schooners , and then vanished , on board an Arab ship , in the direction of New Guinea . He remained so long in that outlying part of his enchanted circle that he was nearly forgotten before he swam into view again in a native proa full ...
... schooners , and then vanished , on board an Arab ship , in the direction of New Guinea . He remained so long in that outlying part of his enchanted circle that he was nearly forgotten before he swam into view again in a native proa full ...
Page 50
... schooners bound to the eastward . This was known afterward from the Javanese boatmen whom Heyst hired for the purpose at three o'clock in the morning . The Tesman schooner had sailed at daylight with the usual land breeze , and was ...
... schooners bound to the eastward . This was known afterward from the Javanese boatmen whom Heyst hired for the purpose at three o'clock in the morning . The Tesman schooner had sailed at daylight with the usual land breeze , and was ...
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