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++++ The Rebel Privateer; Or, The Last Cruise Of The Black Angel;
Clarke's Standard Novel Libr William Stephens Hayward
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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++++ The Mutiny Of The Thunder; Clarke's Standard Novel Libr
William Stephens Hayward History; Oceania; History / Oceania;
Travel / Australia & Oceania
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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START. 13 Jacko was capering and dancing about in mad delight at
seeing my " much big bag" floating in the air, with myself seated
beneath. I waved an adieu to him, and, with feelings of unbounded
pride and exul tation, took hold of the knot and commenced
loosening it. At that moment a shout attracted my attention, and
casting my eyes in the direction whence it came, I saw my father,
followed by one of his labourers, running towards me. Noticing my
absence from the "claim" that morning,?a thing which had never
happened before,?he had come in search of me, and, to his intense
surprise, had found me calmly floating in the air in a balloon,
only held to the earth by one thin cord. I heard him call to me to
come down, at the same time running towards the rope which held me.
For one instant I hesitated,'and then with sudden resolution
loosened the knot and let the rope slip through. To my utter
surprise, I felt no motion Was my balloon, then, the work of so
many months, a failure ? I gazed around me in dismay, then down on
the earth, and learned the truth. The earth appeared to be
miraculously vanishing from my sight. / ivas shooting up in the air
with inconceivable velocity, though the motion ivas quite
imperceptible CHAPTER IV. UP IN THE AIB. My feelings at that moment
I can never describe. The morning was bright and sunny; white,
fleecy, fine-weather clouds being the only ones in the sky. The
panorama-like view below me was glorious in the extreme. There,
stretched beneath me, were the golden valleys of California, with
the thousands of diggers at work, looking, from the elevation at
which14 UP IN THE AIR I was, like so many ants. Then, far away to
the west, I could perceive a faint blue line, which I knew to be
the Pacific Ocean, and could distingui...
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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