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William Clark Russell. List, Ye Landsmen!
List, Ye Landsmen!
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. I ARRIVE IN THE DOWNS
CHAPTER II. I VISIT MY UNCLE AT DEAL
CHAPTER III. THE GIBBET
CHAPTER IV. I ESCAPE FROM THE PRESS
CHAPTER V. CAPTAIN MICHAEL GREAVES OF THE “BLACK WATCH.”
CHAPTER VI. I VIEW THE BRIG
CHAPTER VII. A STRANGE STORY
CHAPTER VIII. A STARTLING PROPOSAL
CHAPTER IX. I FIGHT VAN LAAR
CHAPTER X. WE TRANSHIP VAN LAAR
CHAPTER XI. THE “REBECCA.”
CHAPTER XII. THE ROUND ROBIN
CHAPTER XIII. A MIDNIGHT SCARE
CHAPTER XIV. I SEND MY LETTER
CHAPTER XV. THE WHITE WATER
CHAPTER XVI. GREAVES’ ISLAND
CHAPTER XVII. THE SHIP IN THE CAVE
CHAPTER XVIII. WE TRANSHIP THE DOLLARS
CHAPTER XIX. OFF THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XX. WE START FOR HOME
CHAPTER XXI. A FIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. GREAVES SICKENS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WHALER
CHAPTER XXIV. A SAILOR’S WILL
CHAPTER XXV. AURORA ENTERTAINS US
CHAPTER XXVI. A TRAGIC SHIFT OF COURSE
CHAPTER XXVII. BOL’S RUSE
CHAPTER XXVIII. I SCHEME
CHAPTER XXIX. AMSTERDAM ISLAND
CHAPTER XXX. MY SCHEME
CHAPTER XXXI. A QUAKER SKIPPER
CHAPTER XXXII. MYNHEER TULP
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William Clark Russell
A Romance of Incident
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“Ship ahoy!” shouted one of the seamen.
I felt myself sucked down, but I preserved my senses, and seemed to understand that I was passing under the body of the ship, clear of her, as though swept to and steadied at some depth below her keel by the weight of water her passage drove in downward recoil. I rose, bursting with the holding of my breath, and floated right upon an oar, which I grasped with a drowning grip, though I was a tolerable swimmer; and after drawing several breaths—and oh, the ecstasy of that respiration! and oh, the sweetness of the air with which I filled my lungs!—my wits being still perfectly sound, I struck out with my legs, with no other thought in me then than to drive clear of the drowning scramble which I guessed was happening hard by.
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