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The Isle of Palms; Adventures While Wrecking for Gold, Encounter with a Mad Whale, Battle with a Devil-Fish, and Capture of a Mermaid

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. A TROPIC NIGHT. THE day ended with a beautiful evening. The trades dropped away with the sun, and now a bland tropic air was fanning the ship easily along. Overhead it was clear and cloudless. The stars came twinkling out one by one, until the whole canopy was ablaze with a soft, subdued light. A solemn hush was creeping over the ship and sea that laid hold of every home-loving heart on board. Dr. Greville and the mate were paired off, walking fore-and-aft on the quarter-deck. The captain had previously separated abruptly from them, and taken his seat in the quarter boat ? a hint that he wished to be alone, in silent commune with himself. These self-assertive habits on shipboard are customary with all masters during long voyages, and soon come to be accepted as fixed as the laws of the Medes. Charles Lawrence was new to the situation, and he had much to contemplate. He might well be proud of commanding such a ship as the Fleetwing.He was very young to hold such a responsible position. But the telling experiences of his life had flowed in upon him as upon few others of his age- When we remember that the previous voyage had been accomplished within a year, it becomes evident that the Fleetwing's officers had completed a herculean task. Those familiar with the doings of Captain Lawrence, while mate, will confess that he performed more than his portion of the voyage. Yet it was not of his many brave acts, or his rapid advancement to command, that he now stole away to contemplate. His was a mind which grew upon what it daily acquired, and would ever find itself pre-eminent to any subsequent exaltation that might fall to it. During this pensive starlit gloom, Lawrence's thoughts were not wholly free from sad retrospection. It was an hour when the morbid hea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458920324
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458920321
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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