The Mystic Flowery Land: A Personal NarrativeLuzac, 1896 - 231 pages |
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... sails , their shroudless , raking masts , high , gaudily - embel- lished sterns , and low eyed - bows . No junk ... sail or yuhloa * his vessel across the bows of a steamer going at full speed , just to show their talismanic power off to ...
... sails , their shroudless , raking masts , high , gaudily - embel- lished sterns , and low eyed - bows . No junk ... sail or yuhloa * his vessel across the bows of a steamer going at full speed , just to show their talismanic power off to ...
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... sailing , but more often poling , we passed the departmental city of Taitsang the same evening . Owing to the somewhat anti - foreign feeling that seemed to exist there manifesting itself in sundry brickbats and other missiles which ...
... sailing , but more often poling , we passed the departmental city of Taitsang the same evening . Owing to the somewhat anti - foreign feeling that seemed to exist there manifesting itself in sundry brickbats and other missiles which ...
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... sails - one hand continually wetting them as they went up - shaped their course after us . " I did not like the look of them , but I depended on the swift- ness of my craft . As we got clear of the land , the sou - west breeze increased ...
... sails - one hand continually wetting them as they went up - shaped their course after us . " I did not like the look of them , but I depended on the swift- ness of my craft . As we got clear of the land , the sou - west breeze increased ...
Page 70
... sails flapped idly to and fro , and closer drew the two junks . As they came nearer , we could see all hands ... sail along at some distance apart , but parallel with each other , and as they approached our craft , draw in on the hawser ...
... sails flapped idly to and fro , and closer drew the two junks . As they came nearer , we could see all hands ... sail along at some distance apart , but parallel with each other , and as they approached our craft , draw in on the hawser ...
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... sails filled out , and away we went scudding before it . " It was a mighty narrow shave ! And you may be sure I took good care to be properly armed next voyage . But my dummy guns did their work - they saved a good little ship and her ...
... sails filled out , and away we went scudding before it . " It was a mighty narrow shave ! And you may be sure I took good care to be properly armed next voyage . But my dummy guns did their work - they saved a good little ship and her ...
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