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Excerpt from Wreck of the Glide: With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands Of all mariners, the most deserving of sympathy is the young sailor, as he stands bewildered during a storm. He hears the orders sounding through the shrill trumpet, as if something must be done now or never, but has not yet learned their meaning. He is expected to act with the promptness and decision of the veteran mariner. Distracted and perplexed, yet eager to do his duty, he reels this way and that, seizes this and that rope, trem bles as he climbs the slippery shrouds, and, after doing his best, is hazed by his shipmates from whom he expect ed kindness, and by his officers, who, he hoped, would make allowance for his inexperience, and to whom he looked for protection and advice. In the neighborhood of the Equator, the crew were put on an allowance of five pints of water to a man. The supply was small for men toiling under the heat of a trop ical sun, and subsisting upon salt provisions. Nor was the water very agreeable. Fortunately, we had been but a few days in this situation, when, thick clouds aris ing, screened us from the brassy heavens, and poured their grateful contents upon the deck. N 0 orders from the officers were necessary to bestir the men, to secure the treasure, for every one was impatient to do his duty. The rain fell in torrents and continuously for several hours, during which time the crew were busily employed in conveying the water from the quarter-boats to the casks below. Thus timely relieved, our energies received new life, and a fresh impulse was given to things. 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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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Fiction & related items Adventure

• Pełny tytuł: Wreck of the Glide
• Podtytuł: With an Account of Life and Manners at the Fijii Islands (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: James Oliver
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 120
• EAN: 9781333354831
• ISBN: 1333354835
• ID: 14164379
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 173 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Data wydania: 25. August 2016

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