Two Years Before the Mast, and Twenty-four Years After: A Personal Narrative

Published on: 1869
Page Count: 468 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Sailors
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
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... stars every night , and new constellations rising in the south , and the familiar ones sinking in the north , as we went on our course , - " stemming nightly toward the pole . " Already we had sunk the North Star and the Great Bear ...

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