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Gerstäcker Friedrich. The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants
The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE SEA VOYAGE
CHAPTER II. A WEEK IN NEW YORK
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CHAPTER III. THE PILGRIMAGE TO THE SETTLEMENT
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CHAPTER IV. THE SETTLEMENT
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CHAPTER V. EXCURSIONS HITHER AND THITHER
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CHAPTER VI. THE UNEXPECTED VISIT
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CHAPTER VII. THE FLIGHT
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CHAPTER VIII. THE MOUTH OF THE BIG HALCHEE
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CHAPTER IX. TREACHERY WITHIN TREACHERY
CHAPTER X. THE MIGRATION
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Friedrich Gerstäcker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The passengers, warned by the Captain, forsook the deck, and Pastor Hehrmann and Werner were the only ones who defied the weather, for the waves looked terrifically beautiful in their dark grandeur, when the white and glowing looking foam shot past on their crests, and dissolved itself in a thousand little sparks. At last, however, they were obliged to quit the deck, for heavy drops fell from the clouds that towered themselves closer and closer. They descended, not without casting many an inquiring and fearful look towards the threatening sky, with some reluctance into the dark between decks, whence a suffocating vapour waved against them, and where they required some minutes before they got used to the close and vitiated air, and ventured to breathe it freely.
A hollow sea was running; the waves struck heavily against the sides of the ship, which quivered at each blow. Still the wind had not had time to raise the sea much, and the good ship, heeling over to leeward, which gives a vessel a more secure, and even a more quiet position than when the sea is right abaft, and the lofty structure rolls from side to side, shot forward rapidly through the dark flood, dashing the white foam before her, so that most of the travellers sank into the arms of sleep, quietly and heedlessly.
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