Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Loss of the Swansea: A Story of the Florida Coast
Once a man hired father to sail a new brig from Bristol round to Penzance, and we went with him. That was the one week when we did not live In Bristol, which I just mentioned. We enjoyed it very much and learned a good deal about square-rigged vessels while we were in the brig.
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