South Sea Shipmates

Автор книги: John Arthur Barry id книги: 2198200 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 0 руб. (0$) Читать книгу Скачать бесплатно Электронная книга Жанр: Языкознание Правообладатель и/или издательство: Bookwire Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 11 ноября 2021, 16:32 ISBN: 4066338066688 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

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John Arthur Barry

Published by Good Press, 2021

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All we had in the boat was a compass, four tins of preserved beef, and three bottles of beer. The meat rolled about as it pleased, but we had to stow a precious bottle each inside our shirts to prevent its being broken, while the skipper kept the compass between his legs. At daylight it fell calm again, and nothing was in sight. It was very hot, and we cowered under the mainsail, spread over the sculls, awning-wise, and at intervals took little sips of lukewarm beer to quench our thirst. If I had owned all Bass's breweries just then, I would cheerfully have given the whole box and dice of them for a quart of cold water!

Late in the afternoon—all three of us cramped, sore, thirsty, and sick of homeopathic doses of beef and tepid beer—Phil saw smoke to the eastward, and a few minutes' anxious watching told us that the steamer was coming our way.

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