Adventure Is Sailing Without Compass
Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
... comply , and one of the party discovered the whole plot , which was the
following : - “ They intended to have gone to sea in the cutter this forenoon ,
without a compass , without sails , without a rudder , and without any plan of
navigating her .
Author: SHIPWRECKS.
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Outing Sport Adventure Travel Fiction
The book of adventure and peril
We kept sort of staved , in nearly the middle of reckoning ; but the sun and stars
the Western Ocean , without a being sometimes hidden from us compass ,
without quadrant , with for twenty - four hours , we had out sail , without greatcoat
or no ...
Author: Charles Bruce (writer of tales.)
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The adventures of Robinson Crusoe newly ed by S R B
AT SEA WITHOUT A COMPASS . 93 It is scarcely possible to imagine the ...
myself to get up my mast again , and spread my sail , standing away to the north
as much as possible , to get out of the current . Just as I had set my mast and sail ,
and ...
Author: Daniel Defoe
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Original Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
After sailing three months we knew not where , being still without compass , we
arrived in a sea which appeared to be almost black : upon tasting it , we found it
most excellent wine , and had great difficulty to keep the sailors from getting
drunk ...
Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
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Page: 253
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron M nchhausen
After sailing three months we knew not where , being still without compass , we
arrived in a sea which appeared to be almost black : upon tasting it , we found it
most excellent wine , and had great difficulty to keep the sailors from getting
drunk ...
Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
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Page: 194
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Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea
... desone of the gunwales stove , nearly in the middle of the Western pair and
gloom had as yet been successfully banished , and reOcean , without compass ,
without quadrant , without sail , with peatedly had a song or a tale been
substituted ...
Author: James Lindridge
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Page: 948
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The travels and surprising adventures of baron Munchausen by R E Raspe and others Illustr by Alfred Crowquill
After sailing three months we knew not where , being still without compass , we
arrived in a sea which appeared to be almost black : upon tasting it , we found it
most excellent wine , and had great difficulty to keep the sailors from getting
drunk ...
Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
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The Pilot or Sailors magazine Continued as The Chart and compass
She only waits her complement of hands , and will sail immediately . All who
apply will be admitted without any recommendation to a rank better than that of
sons or of daughters , and when ... It is an adventure of the most momentous
character ...
Author: British and foreign sailors' society
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Complete original edition of the surprising travels and adventures of Baron Munchausen An account of a voyage into the moon and dog star A sequel containing his expedition into Africa etc A new edition with forty copper plates
Cruising World
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War Illustrated Edition
From the general direction of the wind I knew without compass or any other guide
that we were running to the ... I lashed the end of the gaff to the boom, and then
loosed enough of the mainsail to goose-wing it, or make a leg-of-mutton sail of it.
Author: William Pittenger
Publisher: e-artnow
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Page: 231
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Cyril Hamilton his adventures by sea and land
Amid the cheers and expressions of encouragement of their shipmates , the crew
of the cutter hoisted her sails , which ... There was something far from reassuring
in being embarked in an open boat in the Indian Ocean , without compass or ...
Author: Charles Rathbone Low
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Page: 309
View: 692
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
After sailing three months we knew not where, being still without compass, we
arrived in a sea which appeared to be almost black; upon tasting it we found it
most excellent wine, and had great difficulty to keep the sailors from getting drunk
...
Author: Rudolf Erich Raspe
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 161219124X
Page: 272
View: 714
The Calcutta Review
The Battery and the Boiler Or Adventures in the Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
... may knock to pieces , without shelter and without compass ! ” “ Without shelter
and compass , Mr . Shipton ! " said Jim Slagg , who had hitherto listened in
silence to the conversation ; “ why , what d ' ye call this ? " ( taking hold of the sail
) .
Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: Brantford, Ont. : J. & J. Sutherland
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Page: 420
View: 494
Reminiscences of an adventurous and chequered career at home and at the Antipodes
About midnight each of these sailors was suddenly throttled , and a pistol
presented to his head , with threats of instant death if they ... oars , sail , biscuits ,
water , and compass , ready to be lowered . ... One of the sailors and the fourth
man of the bushrangers were drowned ; two of the sailors landed without injury ,
but the ...
Author: Alexander Tolmer
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