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Title: The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901 LaPlante, Charles. egr Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931. ill Dodd, Mead & Company. pbl
Subjects: Boys Conduct of life Voyages and travels Voyages around the world Merchant ships Seafaring life Sailing Slavery
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ge which heldthe proa was to be quickly weighed, the lug sail hoisted, whilehe, staving the canoe, should jump aboard, as the vessel stoodseaward. One of the peculiarly favoring circumstances for Jim was,that the party, or tribe of natives to whom this little harborreally belonged, had a few days before the arrival of the Malays,gone, in their fleet of canoes, upon a warlike expedition toanother portion of the island, leaving but two or three ricketycanoes in the entire neighborhood. Had they all been there,his escape would have been rendered almost hopeless, as intheir exasperation the natives would doubtless have attackedthe proa, and perhaps overcome her by dint of superior num-bers. Supposing, which was not likelv, that the Malay captainwould under such circumstances have consented to receive himon board. A.S the moment drew near which was to decide his fate, andeither give him his freedom or consign him to a slavery morehopel- s than ever before, it may be imagined that poor Jims
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