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six o'clock , the wind came away from east - south - east , it found her heading almost due west . The yards were trimmed , and by half - past six she was slipping through the water at five knots with the wind still increasing . By ...
six o'clock , the wind came away from east - south - east , it found her heading almost due west . The yards were trimmed , and by half - past six she was slipping through the water at five knots with the wind still increasing . By ...
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... wind area abaft the mainmast would bring the Santiago up into the wind's eye . getting uncomfortably close . was large , and , praise God , it Stone walls and fields were was not rendering . momentarily lighted by fitful gleams of ...
... wind area abaft the mainmast would bring the Santiago up into the wind's eye . getting uncomfortably close . was large , and , praise God , it Stone walls and fields were was not rendering . momentarily lighted by fitful gleams of ...
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... wind out time - table had already been and sea and put the engines dislocated . IV . V. The night he would steer in his dash across. The great combers were now right up and down like walls , and with the engines turning slow ahead the ...
... wind out time - table had already been and sea and put the engines dislocated . IV . V. The night he would steer in his dash across. The great combers were now right up and down like walls , and with the engines turning slow ahead the ...
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ACROSS THE SAHARA BY CAR BY CLELAND SCOTT | 1 |
A LION OR TWO BY LIEUT COLONEL A H E MOSSE C I E | 102 |
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