Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 251,Nummer 1519William Blackwood, 1942 |
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Pagina 346
... Perkins , the : mate . Once or twice , as I aged , he grew communicative during long middle watch tricks at the wheel . He was a type frequently encountered in those days a man who had climbed to his indifferent altitude by sheer grit ...
... Perkins , the : mate . Once or twice , as I aged , he grew communicative during long middle watch tricks at the wheel . He was a type frequently encountered in those days a man who had climbed to his indifferent altitude by sheer grit ...
Pagina 347
... Perkins . Long , long afterwards I had a letter from Captain Fegan . That started a brief correspondence . I asked the fate of old shipmates . Mr Perkins had dived overboard in Sydney Harbour after a drunken sailor who had fallen off ...
... Perkins . Long , long afterwards I had a letter from Captain Fegan . That started a brief correspondence . I asked the fate of old shipmates . Mr Perkins had dived overboard in Sydney Harbour after a drunken sailor who had fallen off ...
Pagina 350
... Perkins disdained the rudder , which the seas might easily unhook from its pintles we must have broached - to and been overwhelmed . But we ran away from each comber as it curled and crashed ; our wake was a maelstrom ; a high wave ...
... Perkins disdained the rudder , which the seas might easily unhook from its pintles we must have broached - to and been overwhelmed . But we ran away from each comber as it curled and crashed ; our wake was a maelstrom ; a high wave ...
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