This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...of wind swept over Massachusetts Bay, bearing the vessel irresistibly onwards; the snow-storm increased, and at every moment the darkness increased. At length, for one moment, the clouds of drifting An expression, of which sailors make use, when speaking of the captain of the vessel. snow-flakes parted, and Mr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...of wind swept over Massachusetts Bay, bearing the vessel irresistibly onwards; the snow-storm increased, and at every moment the darkness increased. At length, for one moment, the clouds of drifting An expression, of which sailors make use, when speaking of the captain of the vessel. snow-flakes parted, and Mr. Bowditch, with his hiate, who were watching, saw distinctly the light of Baker's Island. "Light, ho! on the larboard bow," was passed from one to the other, on board that ship, in which were many almost breathless with suspense. It was but for a moment, and again all was obscured. "I am right," said Mr. B.; "the direction in which we are now steering will lead us soon into Salem Harbor." His prediction was fulfilled. It was an extraordinary proof of his skill in navigation. He had had no opportunity for observing the sun or moon for two or three days, yet, so accurately had he marked his position in the ocean, at the last time of observing, that, by steering in the direction pointed out by the chart, and observing the rate at which the vessel moved, he was able to calculate so exactly, that, after seventy-two hours of darkness, as it were, he came up to the light as easily as if he had been steering always in open day, with the object distinctly in view. The old tars could not restrain their expressions of admiration; and as, at nine o'clock in the evening, they dropped anchor in safety from the gale that was now beating with ten-fold violence outside of the island, they whispered with one another, so that he overheard them, "The old man has done well, to-night." It was the twenty-fifth of December, and, throughout Christendom, the festival in commemoration of the birth of the Saviour had been celebrated, and f...
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