The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast: Or, Robert and HaroldDodd, Mead, 1887 - 452 pages The adventures of a family in Florida in 1830. |
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... - sure , which stops the flow from a wound in either vein or artery , must correspond to the direction in which the blood is flowing . [ See note p . 33 . While the sailor was thus stopping the blood by the 30 ROBERT AND HAROLD ; OR.
... - sure , which stops the flow from a wound in either vein or artery , must correspond to the direction in which the blood is flowing . [ See note p . 33 . While the sailor was thus stopping the blood by the 30 ROBERT AND HAROLD ; OR.
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... direction with the inner seams of his coat sleeves and of his pantaloons . When one of them is cut - which may be known by the light red blood flowing in jets , as above described - all the bandages in the world will be insufficient to ...
... direction with the inner seams of his coat sleeves and of his pantaloons . When one of them is cut - which may be known by the light red blood flowing in jets , as above described - all the bandages in the world will be insufficient to ...
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... directions , at the same time that he seized his hat , cloak , and umbrella , Wil- liam rushed in to say that the horses had been struck down and killed . They were stabled under a shelter erected near a tall palmetto - a tree so seldom ...
... directions , at the same time that he seized his hat , cloak , and umbrella , Wil- liam rushed in to say that the horses had been struck down and killed . They were stabled under a shelter erected near a tall palmetto - a tree so seldom ...
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... directions to the servants . " Listen all of you . I have shown you how to treat a horse struck down by lightning . Do you treat a person in the same way . Pour on water by the bucket full , until he gives signs of life ; then rub him ...
... directions to the servants . " Listen all of you . I have shown you how to treat a horse struck down by lightning . Do you treat a person in the same way . Pour on water by the bucket full , until he gives signs of life ; then rub him ...
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... direction , around a point of land where the head of a fallen live oak lay in the water , and its partially decayed limbs were encrusted with barnacles and young oysters . There they soon caught a large supply of very fine fish of ...
... direction , around a point of land where the head of a fallen live oak lay in the water , and its partially decayed limbs were encrusted with barnacles and young oysters . There they soon caught a large supply of very fine fish of ...
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Page 387 - ... life. Sam's heart began to beat softly, and shortly after he gave a sigh. The boys were nearly exhausted by their protracted efforts, but still they kept on ; and it was well they did, for many a person has been lost by neglect after life seemed to have been restored. When the patient was sufficiently recovered to swallow, Robert poured down his throat some warm water and sugar, remarking it was a pity they had brought none of the wines or spirits which were so abundant on shipboard. " There...