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Excerpt from Bret Harte's Writings: The Crusade of the Excelsior
Morning was breaking over a heavy sea, and the closely reefed topsails of a barque that run before it bearing down upon the faint outline of the, Mexican coast. Already the white peak of Colima Showed, ghost-like, in the east;. Already the long sweep of the Pacific was gathering strength' and volume as it swept um interruptedly into the Opening Gulf of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.