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A Little Fleet - Jack B. Yeats
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Title: A Little Fleet
Author: Jack B. Yeats
Release Date: March 4, 2013 [EBook #42255]
Language: English
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CONTENTS
A LITTLE FLEET
THE MONTE
THE MOBY DICK
THE THEODORE
THE PASEAR
THE NEW CORINTHIAN
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FOR CHILDREN.
A LITTLE
FLEET
PRICE ONE SHILLING NET.
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PUBLISHED BY
ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET,
NIGH THE ALBANY, LONDON.
A LITTLE
FLEET
BY
JACK B. YEATS
PUBLISHED BY
ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET,
NIGH THE ALBANY, LONDON.
A LITTLE FLEET
The following account of the Fleet, and of the various histories of the voyages of the vessels which compose it, has been written out by me at the request of the owners. I have also made for them the drawings and the chart which illustrate the account.
The owners of this small merchant fleet had nowhere else handy to float their vessels in than the small and winding Gara river and a very small pond; the vessels when upon the river drove along with the stream, their sails, when they had any, only being of use to get them out of bad places, except occasionally when the current ran slowly; then, with a fair wind, the Pasear
and the Monte,
at any rate, would walk along at a fine pace.
Long, light sticks were carried to steer the ships round dangerous corners, and through narrow and difficult channels like the Two Snags; and when I say she steered this way, or her skipper took