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... sailing as a ship's officer for the first time two months later on another wool clipper on the Australia run . He was back in London the following April , and five months later joined the " Palestine , " a bark of 425 tons . This move ...
... sailing as a ship's officer for the first time two months later on another wool clipper on the Australia run . He was back in London the following April , and five months later joined the " Palestine , " a bark of 425 tons . This move ...
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... sail next above the top- mast and below the royal mast . sail , spar , and rigging development 16 : 158f ; illus . 160 top hair , also called GUARD HAIR , any of the long coarse hairs forming a protective coating over the underfur of a ...
... sail next above the top- mast and below the royal mast . sail , spar , and rigging development 16 : 158f ; illus . 160 top hair , also called GUARD HAIR , any of the long coarse hairs forming a protective coating over the underfur of a ...
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... sailing to the Moluccas . There he was well received by the local sultan , and ap- pears to have concluded a treaty with ... sail the Pa- cific , the Indian Ocean , and the South Atlantic . Despite Spanish protests about his piratical ...
... sailing to the Moluccas . There he was well received by the local sultan , and ap- pears to have concluded a treaty with ... sail the Pa- cific , the Indian Ocean , and the South Atlantic . Despite Spanish protests about his piratical ...
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