: William Clark Russell
: The Death Ship, A Strange Story, Vol.2 (of 3)
: OTB eBook publishing
: 9783968650920
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: CHF 1.80
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 114
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Excerpt: 'A half-hour passed, and during that time I had sufficiently recovered from the distressful croak of the parrot to wonder, as any sailor would, how the ship was navigated; for I could not doubt that the clock kept pretty close to the true time, since the easting and westing made by the ship was small, never, perhaps, exceeding ten degrees; and the circumstance of noon having struck set me wondering in what fashion the captain and mates navigated the ship, whether they used the cross-staff or relied on dead reckoning, or were supernaturally conned.'