Main Title: Two Years Before the Mast
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Author: Dana Jr., Richard Henry
First Published: 1840
Publisher Used for Citing: Project Gutenberg
Type: Fiction
Period: 19th Century

And here we had work to do; for our new sails, which had hardly been bent long enough to get the starch out of them, were as stiff as boards, and the new earings and reef-points, stiffened with the sleet, knotted like pieces of iron wire.


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Author-Dana Jr Richard Henry Title-Two Years Before the Mast Year-1840 Period-19th Century Type-Fiction Publisher-Project Gutenberg

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