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I asked Wada, who, like myself, had never made a sailing-ship voyage.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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And as I froze on in the cab on that bleak pier-end, I damned myself as well, and the mad freak that had started me voyaging on a sailing-ship around the Horn.
CHAPTER I 2010
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I do not know enough of sailing-ship tracks to be certain whether the brig Negociator would sail for the Friendly
Chapter 19 2010
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I do not know enough of sailing-ship tracks to be certain whether the brig Negociator would sail for the Friendly
Chapter 19 2010
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Even Wada, who had never been in a sailing-ship, had his doubts of the voyage.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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I have learned one of the prime virtues of a steel sailing-ship.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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But even Hobson could not have imagined how smoothly ratification would proceed—“as if a sailing-ship on a windless ocean were speeding ahead, propelled by some invisible force,” said the New York Tribune.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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But even Hobson could not have imagined how smoothly ratification would proceed—“as if a sailing-ship on a windless ocean were speeding ahead, propelled by some invisible force,” said the New York Tribune.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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From there a course was to be made on the best route for a sailing-ship -- for the Fram cannot be regarded as anything else -- southward through the Atlantic, and then to the east, passing to the south of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and finally pushing through the pack and into Ross Sea about New Year, 1911.
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On a sailing-ship, lying becalmed with the sun in the zenith, it might be warmer than one would wish; but in case of calms we had the engine to help us, so that there was always a little breeze -- that is, on deck.
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