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

He was sitting out in the sun, leaning against the side of a hut; and his legs and arms, which were bare, were of a dark red color, the skin withered and shrunk up like burnt leather, and the limbs not larger round than those of a boy of five years.


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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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Once or twice, when our bullocks failed and we were obliged to make a meal upon dry bread and water, it seemed like feeding upon shavings.

-- Two Years Before the Mast - Dana Jr., Richard Henry - 1840