This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... I took the anchor watch. Meanwhile Sven ranged along the shore, glad to escape being dismasted, burned, cast away, foundered, captured, shot, bitten by seals, or drowned in the surf--all of which fates he had predicted daily. When he got cold and tired he improvidently burned his shirt and oilskins, to make a nice ... Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... I took the anchor watch. Meanwhile Sven ranged along the shore, glad to escape being dismasted, burned, cast away, foundered, captured, shot, bitten by seals, or drowned in the surf--all of which fates he had predicted daily. When he got cold and tired he improvidently burned his shirt and oilskins, to make a nice fire and get warm. It was 2 A. M. when, pacing the lonely deck, I sighted that fire, and made sure of an attack from the Aleutian village. Not that I greatly feared, for, during the evening, in the Flying Dutchman's boots and a torn oilskin, the cook had paraded the cabin, setting forth how, with a live coal and a keg of powder, he would discomfort all boat attacks--a sure recipe, he said, for Aleuts. Still, to make certain that the schooner was not visible, I made hurried survey of shrouded skylight and portholes. The cabin boy had carelessly uncovered one porthole, and that I smothered. Upon which Sven, rather chilly since his shirt went out, supposed we had sailed, and gave way wholly to grief. He thought of the flesh-pots and the warmth, he straggled back to where the schooner had been, and when in the breaking dawn he sighted his lost home, he let out yowls of joy. All the same the Flying Dutchman addressed him at considerable length by way of welcome when he came on board. At 5 A. M. the raiding began again; but the surf was worse than ever, the boats insisted on sinking, and as to the seals, there were very few left on the islands except the grim old bulls, which attacked every man they saw. One man only escaped by a plunge into the cool sea. Day broke, and when there were no seal carcasses to haul on board, I had time for hasty memoranda with the condemned camera. The village looked disagreeably close, with smoke rising from all the chimn... Read Less
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