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The Castaways
It was on a wet, dreary, dismal afternoon, toward the end of October 18, that I found myself en route for Gravesend, to join the clipper ship City of Cawnpore, in the capacity of cuddy passenger, bound for Calcutta. The wind was blowing strong from the south-east, and came sweeping along, charged with frequent heavy rain squalls that dashed fiercely against the carriage windows, while the atmosphere was a mere dingy, brownish grey expanse of shapeless vapour, so all-pervading that it shut out not only the entire firmament but also a very considerable portion of the landscape. There had been a time, not so very long agowhile I was hunting slavers on the West Coast, grilling under a scorching African sun day after day and month after month, with pitiless monotonywhen the mere recollection of such weather as this had made me long for a taste of it as a priceless luxury; but now, after some five months experience of the execrable British climate, I folded my cloak more closely about me, as I gazed through the carriage windows at the rain-blurred landscape, and blessed the physician who was sending me southward in search of warmth and sunshine and the strong salt breeze once more. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 23491
Author: Collingwood, Harry
Release Date: Nov 15, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell, 1880-1952
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