My Windows on the Street of the World, Volume 1J.M. Dent & sons, limited, 1923 - 452 pages |
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... trading on the China coast . The vessel , with a cargo of coolies , was caught in one of those typhoons so much dreaded in the China seas . The only safe course for a vessel in such a hurricane is to put out to sea , and avoid if ...
... trading on the China coast . The vessel , with a cargo of coolies , was caught in one of those typhoons so much dreaded in the China seas . The only safe course for a vessel in such a hurricane is to put out to sea , and avoid if ...
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... trade between Dundee and the Continent . The timber trade brought the port into relations with Bergen and Quebec , and the trade in tar with the Swedish and Finnish ports in the Gulf of Bothnia and with Archangel in the White Sea . In ...
... trade between Dundee and the Continent . The timber trade brought the port into relations with Bergen and Quebec , and the trade in tar with the Swedish and Finnish ports in the Gulf of Bothnia and with Archangel in the White Sea . In ...
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... trade - in the Baltic , in Archangel , in India , in China , and in the Quebec timber trade . He retired from active seafaring about 1840 , and up till that time had made eight voyages round the world , some of these extending over two ...
... trade - in the Baltic , in Archangel , in India , in China , and in the Quebec timber trade . He retired from active seafaring about 1840 , and up till that time had made eight voyages round the world , some of these extending over two ...
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... trade . In the autumn of that year , while on a Baltic voyage , his vessel was pursued by a pirate . At that time the Baltic was infested by pirates , none of the maritime nations bordering upon the sea having a sufficiently powerful ...
... trade . In the autumn of that year , while on a Baltic voyage , his vessel was pursued by a pirate . At that time the Baltic was infested by pirates , none of the maritime nations bordering upon the sea having a sufficiently powerful ...
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... trade over a large part of Europe between 1830 and 1840. He had saved money enough to be independent , and when I saw him about 1870 he was occupying his leisure in reading through Constable's Miscellany . At that moment he was deep in ...
... trade over a large part of Europe between 1830 and 1840. He had saved money enough to be independent , and when I saw him about 1870 he was occupying his leisure in reading through Constable's Miscellany . At that moment he was deep in ...
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Page 23 - Hearing St. Nicholas' bells ring out the chimes, Yet never see those proud ones swaying home With mainyards backed and bows a cream of foam, Those bows so lovely-curving, cut so fine, Those coulters of the many-bubbled brine, As once, long since, when all the docks were filled With that sea-beauty man has ceased to build. Yet, though their...