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The Kansas voyage and a perilous sea romance unfolds
On the Kansas voyage from Valparaiso to London, captain Courtenay defuses a knife attack amid a flirtatious triangle with Isobel Baring and Elsie Maxwell. The scene mixes risky pursuit, nautical danger, and budding romance as a mutinous Chilean is subdued and a telegraph of full speed ahead guides the ship toward Cape Caraumilla and the Magellan Strait.
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Kansas
Isobel Barling
Elsie Maxwell
Elsie
Isobel Bar- Ing
Isobel
Andes
London
M. le Comte Edouard de Poinclilt
Leth Edouard
Valparaiso
Paris
Cor.tenny
Miss Maxwell
Miss Baring
Zisse
Thi Nan Ventana
Isobel Baring
Ventana
Ife
Baring
Courtenay
Courtenszy
Shakespeare
Montaigne
Herbert Spencer
Goethe
Lewes
Marcus Aurelius
Martial
Wordsworth
The
Egoist
Thoreau
Hazlitt
Mitford
Japan
Joey
Cape Caraumilla
Buel Rock
Arthur
Jake
Courtenas
Chart House
Ling
Mr. Boyle
Clillean
N. Cheristobal
Christobal
Chile
Barcelona
Ixangas
Tie
Vic. Boyle
Boyle
Courtehiy
Frascuelo
Fraserey
Mir. Boyle
Tom
Frascnolo
Maxwell
Dr. Christobal
Cape Cardones
Evengelistas Island
Fernando de Magalhines
Cordilera
Lisse
M. de Poincilit