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Page 33 - what they shall eat, or what they shall drink, or wherewithal they shall be clothed,
Page 187 - up I had done the worst possible thing; that had I stayed below for an hour or two after the bite, I should not have had any further discomfort, as the pressure would have caused the wound to bleed freely, and thus have expelled the poison.
Page 2 - He must know what it means to live for months at a time upon food that a longshore dog would scorn; to drink foul water, and to sleep but three hours and a half at a stretch. He must know what it means to spend a night on the foot-ropes, shortening sail; to round the Horn in a fireless, leaky
Page 181 - wrong way, thus keeping in the air instead of letting it out. Then, losing his presence of mind altogether, he had fallen down; the air had immediately accumulated in the bulkiest part of the dress, and floated him ungracefully to the surface.
Page 178 - minute or so the end of both pipe- and lifeline would be reached; the whole weight of the tide-driven boat would come upon them, and they would
Page 173 - method called sculling. Sixty feet is the extreme depth at which natives can work successfully. Though they remain under water usually from sixty to ninety seconds, many of the old hands can double this time when necessary. Under exceptionally good conditions, the best divers will get from sixty to one hundred shells a day. The average of an ordinary boat's crew, however, is probably not more than twenty.
Page 185 - have the beggar's nose pointed up'ard, and as long as you hold him that way, he can only go up'ard.
Page 1 - seafaring life was quite an ideal one, and the lot of a sailorman the jolliest of all. I say I suppose this, because in no other way can I account for the
Page 174 - When one considers that a diver is always at the tender mercy of his Malay crew; that the