The Story Of David Gray Classic Reprint

Author : David Gray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332131573
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray (Classic Reprint) written by David Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters, Poems and Selected Prose Writings of David Gray The China is a magnificent vessel and the Atlantic has treated her, this time, right chivalrously. As if they owned her regal attitude among them, the elements have not thrown her a challenge, but smooth her path and fill her sails in loyal facilitation of her eastward progress. We have scarcely felt the step yet in which the Ocean moves in his moods of lively frolic. Still less has he donned for us the white cap of his wrath. In a word, utterly discouraging to the demon of sea sickness, and terrible in its effects upon the China's commissariat, has been this most auspicious voyage, thus far. The fog which curtained the sea all along as we sailed, till abreast of Cape Race, and which we found in ragged little ribbands lying across the great bank of Newfoundland, alone has given us a glimpse of the possible dangers of the deep. There were times when, for hours, between the dark and the day light, the Ohina bounded fiercely across the narrow circle of watery moonlight into which, by dense and high and all-surrounding walls of white mist, she was inexorably shut. On watch, then, were eyes the skill fullest and most unwearying, strained to catch the first glitter of terrible silver emerging from the fog, sole signal which the deadly iceberg is wont to carry at its prow of crystal. But neither the peril nor the pleasure of passing a hyperborean fleet was ours. We saw no ice. 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.