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Page 31
... ship's glass , — and it is not for beauty that you hunt with your glass : it is for excitement . You are hunting for the very heart and flaming core of excitement , and that is a steamer . Living in lonely places like this , you are a ...
... ship's glass , — and it is not for beauty that you hunt with your glass : it is for excitement . You are hunting for the very heart and flaming core of excitement , and that is a steamer . Living in lonely places like this , you are a ...
Page 32
... ship's launch has ceased to sob and sleeps in her berth on deck ; the second officer has made his last bitter comments and has gone be- low to wash himself , and the time has come for the white men to go ashore . They hang over the ...
... ship's launch has ceased to sob and sleeps in her berth on deck ; the second officer has made his last bitter comments and has gone be- low to wash himself , and the time has come for the white men to go ashore . They hang over the ...
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who will never come on deck if the ship goes down ; and you see on the bridge the legs of the little cabin - boy , whose head , inside the pilot - house door , waits on an order . All the life of the ship , under the cover of the smoke ...
who will never come on deck if the ship goes down ; and you see on the bridge the legs of the little cabin - boy , whose head , inside the pilot - house door , waits on an order . All the life of the ship , under the cover of the smoke ...
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... ship trembles with that shudder of getting under weigh , which is the initial throe of the ecstasy of going home . When last I went to Africa , it was in war - time , and I took five steamers . Five steamers I took , and for these five ...
... ship trembles with that shudder of getting under weigh , which is the initial throe of the ecstasy of going home . When last I went to Africa , it was in war - time , and I took five steamers . Five steamers I took , and for these five ...
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... ship- mates . She did not move apart , a con- descending or indifferent foreigner . Lit- tle Kahdra would come to her knee and chatter to her of the great snake that lived up on Mahadeo , to devour VOL . 128 - NO . 1 ness of the East ...
... ship- mates . She did not move apart , a con- descending or indifferent foreigner . Lit- tle Kahdra would come to her knee and chatter to her of the great snake that lived up on Mahadeo , to devour VOL . 128 - NO . 1 ness of the East ...
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