Our Journal in the PacificLongmans, Green, and Company, 1873 - 333 strani |
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... complete ; we hoisted the flag the following day , and saluted it with thirteen guns . Our cruise in the Pacific was begun ; this shall end the first chapter of ' Our Journal . ' CHAPTER II . LEAVE PANAMA - PUT IN AT THE CH . I. 15 PANAMA.
... complete ; we hoisted the flag the following day , and saluted it with thirteen guns . Our cruise in the Pacific was begun ; this shall end the first chapter of ' Our Journal . ' CHAPTER II . LEAVE PANAMA - PUT IN AT THE CH . I. 15 PANAMA.
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... gun . To ob- tain a landing - place at the nearest point to the plain , we had to pull rather more than two miles along a rugged shore . On our way we encountered immense shoals of fish , playing lazily on the surface of the water ...
... gun . To ob- tain a landing - place at the nearest point to the plain , we had to pull rather more than two miles along a rugged shore . On our way we encountered immense shoals of fish , playing lazily on the surface of the water ...
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... gun in one year . AMERICAN CAMP . After returning on board we weighed and proceeded through the middle channel between San Juan , Lopez , and Show Islands to the north anchorage . This channel is narrow in some places , with one or two ...
... gun in one year . AMERICAN CAMP . After returning on board we weighed and proceeded through the middle channel between San Juan , Lopez , and Show Islands to the north anchorage . This channel is narrow in some places , with one or two ...
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... guns , and ammunition , taking no thought for the morrow , as is generally the case with sailors on a cruise . How- ever , fortune favoured us - that sweet little cherub , who sits up aloft , did not on this occasion forget to look ...
... guns , and ammunition , taking no thought for the morrow , as is generally the case with sailors on a cruise . How- ever , fortune favoured us - that sweet little cherub , who sits up aloft , did not on this occasion forget to look ...
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... guns , strolled forth to see what we could find for breakfast . had not to go far before our bag was well filled with wild doves , pigeons , grey squirrels , parrots , and a species of iguano , common to Peru , called a ' capaz , ' all ...
... guns , strolled forth to see what we could find for breakfast . had not to go far before our bag was well filled with wild doves , pigeons , grey squirrels , parrots , and a species of iguano , common to Peru , called a ' capaz , ' all ...
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