2015, ISBN: 1502888971

[EAN: 9781502888976], New book, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. [.]seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred … mais…

[EAN: 9781502888976], New book, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. [.]seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. I dare say he was right. It seems to me I knew very little then, and I know not much more now; but I cherish a hate for that Jermyn to this day. We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale-the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightning, sleet, snow, and a terrific sea. We were flying light, and you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck. On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow, and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger Bank. There was nothing for it but go below with shovels and try to right her, and there we were in that vast hold, gloomy like a cavern, the tallow dips stuck and flickering on the beams, the gale howling above, the ship tossing about like mad on her side; there we all were, Jermyn, the captain, everyone, hardly able to keep our feet, engaged on that gravedigger s work, and trying to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to windward. At every tumble of the ship you could see vaguely in the dim light men falling down with a great flourish of shovels. One of the ship s boys (we had two), impressed by[.].<

2015, ISBN: 1502888971

[EAN: 9781502888976], New book, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. [.]seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred … mais…

[EAN: 9781502888976], New book, [PU: Createspace, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. [.]seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. I dare say he was right. It seems to me I knew very little then, and I know not much more now; but I cherish a hate for that Jermyn to this day. We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale-the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightning, sleet, snow, and a terrific sea. We were flying light, and you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck. On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow, and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger Bank. There was nothing for it but go below with shovels and try to right her, and there we were in that vast hold, gloomy like a cavern, the tallow dips stuck and flickering on the beams, the gale howling above, the ship tossing about like mad on her side; there we all were, Jermyn, the captain, everyone, hardly able to keep our feet, engaged on that gravedigger s work, and trying to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to windward. At every tumble of the ship you could see vaguely in the dim light men falling down with a great flourish of shovels. One of the ship s boys (we had two), impressed by[.].<

ISBN: 9781502888976

Youth, a Narrative Youth~~Joseph-Conrad Literature>Literature>Literature Paperback, CreateSpace Publishing

ISBN: 9781502888976

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