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William Clark Russell

List, Ye Landsmen!

A Romance of Incident

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4066338066114

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CHAPTER I.

I ARRIVE IN THE DOWNS.

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Sailors visit many fine countries; but there is none—not the very finest—that delights them more than the coast of their own native land when they sight it after a long voyage. The flattest piece of treeless English shore—such a melancholy, sandy, muddy waste, say, as that which the River Stour winds greasily and slimily through past Sandwich, into the salt, green, sparkling waters of the Small Downs—the English sailor will look at with a thirstier and sharper pleasure than ever could be excited in him by the most majestic and splendid scenery abroad.

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