Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221W. Blackwood, 1927 - England |
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THE ship was pushing steadily through the solid blackness of a night as stifling and oppressive as only a night in the doldrums can be . It was time for me to turn in ; but I stood in my pyjamas outside my cabin door and eyed that oven ...
THE ship was pushing steadily through the solid blackness of a night as stifling and oppressive as only a night in the doldrums can be . It was time for me to turn in ; but I stood in my pyjamas outside my cabin door and eyed that oven ...
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They're all due first night out , and went for for the clink as soon as they him about the way he was get ashore ; but some of them manhandling the coolies .
They're all due first night out , and went for for the clink as soon as they him about the way he was get ashore ; but some of them manhandling the coolies .
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He must have made too much of a nuisance of himself for those Small Knife people , and I suppose they just laid for him one night when he was going his rounds , and then slipped him over the side . I should think that was about what ...
He must have made too much of a nuisance of himself for those Small Knife people , and I suppose they just laid for him one night when he was going his rounds , and then slipped him over the side . I should think that was about what ...
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One night , when we were about half - way down the Malacca Straits , I was standing up here trying to make up my mind whether or not to take the ship into Singa- pore - and chance getting fired for it , -when I caught sight of somebody ...
One night , when we were about half - way down the Malacca Straits , I was standing up here trying to make up my mind whether or not to take the ship into Singa- pore - and chance getting fired for it , -when I caught sight of somebody ...
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He said he'd made up his mind to wait and drop over the side one night and swim for it if we passed close enough to any land . It was a mighty slim chance ; but the man was desperate , and I could see he meant to do what he said .
He said he'd made up his mind to wait and drop over the side one night and swim for it if we passed close enough to any land . It was a mighty slim chance ; but the man was desperate , and I could see he meant to do what he said .
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