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Excerpt from The Mystery The late afternoon Sky daunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed slug gishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, possibly the Sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, She lay black and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves. Half a mile to the east of the derelict hovered a ship's cutter, the turn of her crew's heads speaking expectancy. As far again beyond, the United States cruiser Wolverine outlined her severe and trim silhouette against the horizon. In all the spread of wave and sky no other thing was visible. For this was one of the desert parts of the Pacific, three hundred miles north of the steamship route from Yokohama to Honolulu, five hundred miles from the nearest land, Gardner Island, and more than seven hundred northwest of the Hawaiian group. On the cruiser's quarter-deck the Officers lined the starboard rail. Their interest was focussed on the derelict. Looks like a heavy job, said Ives, one of the junior lieutenants. These żoaters that lie with deck almost awash will stand more hammering than a mud fort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: The Mystery (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Stewart Edward White
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 788
• EAN: 9780259184737
• ISBN: 025918473X
• ID: 16322856
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 1036 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. May 2017

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