This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II ROLLING DOWN TO RIO TIE Barnacle, a Yankee clipper, under com- mand of Captain Thomas Flanders of New Bedford, carried a varied cargo out of Boston. There were several hundred cases of starch, as many kegs of nails, three large wagon-loads of sewingmachines, five hundred bales of oakum, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II ROLLING DOWN TO RIO TIE Barnacle, a Yankee clipper, under com- mand of Captain Thomas Flanders of New Bedford, carried a varied cargo out of Boston. There were several hundred cases of starch, as many kegs of nails, three large wagon-loads of sewingmachines, five hundred bales of oakum, and hardware that ran all the way from pocket-knives to plows and grain-binders. She also had on board four whale-boats, each over thirty feet long, going to Alaska, for, odd though it seems, few good whale-boats are built on the Pacific coast and the best are sent all the way around to Sitka from New Bedford. These were hard to stow in a deep-water ship so that they should not be crushed by heavier cargo, but the second mate, John Perkins, was a master-hand at packing merchandise in a vessel's The Barnacle was a three-master, very loftily rigged, as sailors say, with three sky-sail yards, and a mainyard all of ninety feet long. There was a hold. large house on the main-deck, containing the forecastle, sail-room, galley, and carpenter-shop, with a twenty horse-power donkey engine. The cabin was also large, with comfortable accommodations for the captain and officers, as well as for occasional passengers like Jeremy Grantham, who might get permission from the ship's owners to make a voyage. Thomas Flanders, the captain, son of a long line of Yankee mariners, was a big, raw-boned man with a skin tanned by sun and wind to a fine orange-red. The first mate, always called " the mate," Alonzo Mason, was short and stocky, with bristling mustache and beetling eyebrows, a taciturn man who gave his commands with the sharp bark of a dog. John Perkins, the second mate, had been born in England, but had come to Boston when a boy and become a naturalized...
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Poor. No dust jacket. 348 p. Includes illustrations. Near Fair copy. Green boards quite rubbed/scuffed, pastedown art still intact. Unhinged at front. Foxing. Pgs appear clean, with attractive illustrations throughout.
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Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Stamp on front endpaper. Pages light brown. Corners slightly bent. Edges of spine bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
