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Frederic William Naylor Bayley:

Four Years' Residence in the West Indies - Paperback

2009, ISBN: 0217835341

Kvalitets paperback, [PD: 01/08/2009], [PU: General Books], Seiten: 444

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Frederic William Naylor Bayley:

Four Years' Residence in the West Indies - Paperback

2009, ISBN: 0217835341

Kvalitets paperback, [PD: 01/08/2009], [PU: General Books], Seiten: 444

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGE. THE ARRIVAL. " The skies were bright, the seas were calm, " We ran before the wind." Rev. H. Milman. " And, oh ! it was with raptures such as these " That I first hail'd the sight of Carlisle Bay." F. W. N. Bayley. Scarcely had we time to procure fresh anchors, with several other necessaries, at Portsmouth, before a prosperous breeze sprung up from the land; and our vessel was shortly again under full sail. We soon left the land behind us; and, towards evening, the extreme point of Land's End was scarcely visible. I now felt that I had, indeed, left Old England, perhaps for ever, and certainly without a prospect of seeing it again for a long period: this to me was worse than the qualms of sickness, or even than the tempestuous weather we had so lately experienced. We had now, however, a glorious breeze, and our ship was carrying on before it, at the rate of ten knots an hour; we had nothing to alarm, and a great deal to make us hungry. The qualms of sickness being over, our passengers became tolerable sailors: the ladies managed to get on deck; and when the vessel was steady enough, the gentlemen amused themselves alternately with chess and backgammon: in short, we all eat, drank, talked, and slept as well as Christians with good consciences usually do. My slumbers were peaceful, and my dreams sweet; the former composed my mind, and the latter continually presented before it the angelic image of my best loved Laura. Not so our exquisite, who slept in the adjoining berth; soundly, indeed, did he sleep, and loudly did he snore, but not peacefully forsooth. One night his slumber was deeper than usual, and so was mine. I was awakened, however, and like the other passengers, somewhat alarmed, by loud and repeated cries ...

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ISBN (ISBN-10): 0217835341 (ISBN-13: 9780217835343)
Paperback
Publishing year: 2009

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ISBN/EAN: 9780217835343

ISBN - alternate spelling:
0-217-83534-1
Alternate spelling and related search-keywords:
Book author: bayley frederic, frederic west
Book title: four years residence the west


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