The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112National Geographic Society, 1957 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... ship , but Mayflower was too heavily laden and it could move her only at about a knot , which she was doing anyway . Elizabethan seamen often towed their ships with their own longboats , I knew , but not in the open sea . Towing by our ...
... ship , but Mayflower was too heavily laden and it could move her only at about a knot , which she was doing anyway . Elizabethan seamen often towed their ships with their own longboats , I knew , but not in the open sea . Towing by our ...
Page 665
... ship if I took all the canvas off ? The wind continued to freshen , and to head the ship . It was also blow- ing against the current , setting up a nasty sea in which the ship jumped and labored heavily . The rain squalls were now so ...
... ship if I took all the canvas off ? The wind continued to freshen , and to head the ship . It was also blow- ing against the current , setting up a nasty sea in which the ship jumped and labored heavily . The rain squalls were now so ...
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... Ships Everything on the island is geared to the coming and going of ships . There is always keen rivalry among the men to be the first to sight an incoming vessel . Usually Tom has talked to the ship by wireless , and he knows about ...
... Ships Everything on the island is geared to the coming and going of ships . There is always keen rivalry among the men to be the first to sight an incoming vessel . Usually Tom has talked to the ship by wireless , and he knows about ...
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