Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 297William Blackwood, 1965 - England |
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Page 271
On Friday morning , third out , the main engine began to overheat as we lolloped north into the swell . We slowed to twelve knots . By tea - time the monsoon was hitting us with a thick , lumpy sea , and Applause began moving to its ...
On Friday morning , third out , the main engine began to overheat as we lolloped north into the swell . We slowed to twelve knots . By tea - time the monsoon was hitting us with a thick , lumpy sea , and Applause began moving to its ...
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We began to have few baths . To have a fire , or cook a meal , meant carrying in dead timber and sawing up logs , because we could not afford coal . For seven years the two big gardens had been deserted , and so we had seven years ...
We began to have few baths . To have a fire , or cook a meal , meant carrying in dead timber and sawing up logs , because we could not afford coal . For seven years the two big gardens had been deserted , and so we had seven years ...
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Then , as the whole weight of the current came against her broadside , she began to heel far over to starboard . Passengers screamed their alarm and began to slide across the decks . Suddenly , with a violent tremor , as if from an ...
Then , as the whole weight of the current came against her broadside , she began to heel far over to starboard . Passengers screamed their alarm and began to slide across the decks . Suddenly , with a violent tremor , as if from an ...
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Contents
A BIT OF A DUSTING BY W RUTHERFORD | 96 |
ACROSS THE WALL OF TEARS BY JOHN PEMBROKE | 288 |
MR CHIPLUNKAR | 384 |
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