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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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ding Saturday, had been carefully preservedfor a Sabbath afternoons work. We were yet busied aboutthe anchor, when the captain, who was at the masthead witha spy-glass, raised the land. The coast here is remarkably low and marshy, and visibleat but little distance. We were only eight miles from thenearest point, when the captain first saw it. We immediatelyshaped our course for the rivers mouth, and by dark were sofortunate as to receive on board a pilot, a black fellow,dressed in most approved white duck, but barefooted. Underhis guidance the vessel was taken to the entrance of theriver, and there anchored, just outside of the bar, which wecould only pass at high water. At sunrise, when the tide per-mitted, we sailed up the river, abreast of the town, and bvnight were lying alongside of a convenient wharf or pier. Georgetown, or Stabrok, which last is its Dutch name, isthe capital and chief city of British Guiana. It lies atthe mouth of the river Demarary, and on its east bank. It is
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Coast of Demerara - page 329

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