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- Author: Herman Melville
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 154
- ISBN-10: 150053739X
- ISBN-13: 9781500537395
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean. On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics.
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- Author: Herman Melville
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 154
- ISBN-10: 150053739X
- ISBN-13: 9781500537395
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean. On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly-looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics.
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