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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: BELGRAVIA. OCTOBER 1885. BY W. CLARK RUSSELL. Autlwr of A Sea Queen, ' ' The Lady Maud, ' ' A Sailor's Smcetheart, ' ' The Wreck of the Orosrenor, ' $e. ' In sea affairs nothing is impossible and nothing improbable.' ? Lobd Nelsos. Chapter XXXVII. WE CHANGE THE SHIP'S COURSE, THE lamp that had been alight in the captain's cabin when I called the poor old fellow to come on deck was still burning. I entered and stood for some minutes at the table at which I had found him seated, glancing round me and lost in deep and troubled thought. The ordinary seaman's remark about the flavour of the cabin brandy, and the cook's answer to the fellow, caused me great uneasiness. As yet the captain was only just missing; the men had hardly had time to fully understand that there was no head to the ship, and that there was nobody to hinder them from doing what they pleased; I was still a passenger, a friend of the owner of the vessel, who might assert a claim on behalf of his cabin-associates to all that was for the use of our part of the ship; and so the drink was to be 'abstracted ' cautiously, unknown to me. Bat how long was this going to last? How long would it be before the men lost all sense of my position and acted without the least regard to my presence and entreaties and threats? I had noticed, whilst searching the ship for the captain, that there was enough wine and spirits in the lazarette to keep the crew continuously drunk for weeks: and I felt a chill VOl. LYIl. HI. CCXXVIII. C C penetrate to my very soul when I thought of the condition Miss Inglefield and I would be reduced to, should the fellows once break loose in that way, and make devils and filthy sodden breathing carcases of themselves with the contents of the casks and bottles under the cabin hatch. .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217182201 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217182208 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $29.13 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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