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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 182 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=272gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: 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 III SOUTHWARD A STIRRING and lively scene met my gaze as I emerged from the companion- way. A great waste of roaring tumbling seas, their dull green mountainous masses breaking off into foamy crests as they swooped down upon us, only to swing under the keel and roar on afresh in a moving mountain beyond. The sky, a great flying scud which glimpses of sickly sunshine strove here and there to pierce. White gulls hovered and darted, squealing; and, thrown out in a cloud of proud magnificence against the inky sky to the westward, a homeward-bound ship, under a full spread of canvas, was thundering over the boil of billows, dashing the white spray before her in cataracts. From the poop-deck I could see for the first time what manner of craft I was in. The Kittiwake was an iron steamer of just under two thousand tons, brig rigged; and the water was pouring from her forecastle as she dipped her nose into the meeting of the green seas. Some of the hands were runningup the foresail to the accompaniment of a shrill nautical chant, and the broad red man, clad in oilskins, had just gone up to relieve the second mate on the bridge. To a landsman's eye, the aspect of the weather quarter looked black and threatening to the last degree, and it hardly needed the captain's warning that a dusty time, which would keep all hands busy, was in front of us. " You were saying you had no incubus in the matter of family dependent on you, Mr. Holt," the captain remarked as we paced the short poop-deck, which was literally, as he put it, fisherman's walk?three steps and overboard. " But I hope you've left no one behind who'll be anxious about you." " Not a soul," I answered. " I have no friends, only relations, and their only anxiety ?at least, on the part of one of two of the nearest?w...<

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