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Excerpt: ""Land ahead!" The North Foreland had been made advisedly snug for the night. In the middle watch she was under her three lower topsails and fore topmast staysail only. Not that it blew very hard, but the night was dark and hazy, with a heavy swell. And it was the last night of the voyage. At eight bells there had been a cast of the deep-sea lead, with the significant result that the skipper had been the first to turn in; gradually the excited passengers had followed his example, instead of staying on deck to see the Otway light. The second mate had said there would be no Otway that night, and what the second said was good enough for most. The saloon skylight had become a clean-edged glimmer in the middle of the poop, the binnacle a fallen moon; not a port-hole twinkled on the rushing ink; and the surviving topsails, without visible stitch or stick aloft or alow, hovered over the ship like gigantic bats. Four persons remained upon the poop: the middy of the watch, tantalized by muffled guffaws from the midshipmen's berth in the after-house; the man at the wheel, in eclipse above the belt, with the binnacle light upon one weather-beaten hand; and on the weather side, the second mate in reluctant conversation with a big cigar that glowed at intervals into a bearded and spectacled face, the smooth brown one of the young officer sharing the momentary illumination. "It's all very well," said the senior man, in low persistent tones, "but if we don't have it out now, when are we to? You know what it will be like to-morrow: we shall land first thing, and you'll be the busiest man on board. As for the rules of the ship, if an owner can't use his discretion he might as well travel by some other line.""
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I THE SECOND OFFICER
17CHAPTER XVII HATE AND MONEY
2CHAPTER II SAUVE QUI PEUT
18CHAPTER XVIII ROTTEN GULLY
3CHAPTER III THE CASTAWAYS
19CHAPTER XIX NEW BLOOD
4CHAPTER IV LOST AND FOUND
20CHAPTER XX THE JEWELER'S SHOP
5CHAPTER V A TOUCH OF FEVER
21CHAPTER XXI THE COURIER OF DEATH
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6CHAPTER VI NEW CONDITIONS
22CHAPTER XXII ATRA CURA
7CHAPTER VII DENIS AND NAN
23CHAPTER XXIII BROKEN OFF
8CHAPTER VIII COLD WATER
24CHAPTER XXIV DEATH'S DOOR
9CHAPTER IX THE CANVAS CITY
25CHAPTER XXV BEAT OF DRUM
10CHAPTER X THIEVES IN THE NIGHT
26CHAPTER XXVI HOMEWARD BOUND
11CHAPTER XI STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
27CHAPTER XXVII THE GREAT GULF
12CHAPTER XII EL DORADO
28CHAPTER XXVIII NEWS OF BATTLE
13CHAPTER XIII THE ENEMY'S CAMP
29CHAPTER XXIX GUY FAWKES DAY
14CHAPTER XIV THE FIRST CLAIM
30CHAPTER XXX THE SANDBAG BATTERY
15CHAPTER XV A PIOUS FRAUD
31CHAPTER XXXI TIME'S WHIRLIGIG
16CHAPTER XVI A WINDFALL
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