Phantom Ship Haunts Cape Horn Outbound Warship
A British frigate narrates a vanished petty officer during a brutal Antarctic voyage. After a mysterious disappearance amid a deadly gale near the Cape of Storms, the crew spots a bright light and a ghostly large vessel on the starboard side. Rescue is attempted but the phantom ship vanishes as the sea rages on.
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Cape Horn
Braiswater
Valparaiso Bay
Plymouth
Jack
Cape
Dre
Attack on Washington during Early’s 1864 raid described
Ben Perley Poor recounts spectators on the Washington parapet during a July 12 1864 assault by Early’s Confederate forces. Lincoln and Wright watched as bullets flew and wounded lay in view. Breckinridge’s presence is noted as a contrast to the battle scene. Early’s plan to threaten Washington is discussed with commentary on fortifications and expected manpower.
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Ben. Perley
Boston
Washington
Washingto
Por Stevens
Abraha Lincoln
Gen. Wright
Breckenridge
United States
Early
Nautical Language Phrasings Bring Sailors to Church
A sailor guiding his companion to church uses terms like list to port luff and tack while drifting. Another sailor struggles with a temperamental Mexican donkey and asks an Indian boy to seize its tail as guide. Weaver meets the ship captain and humorously explains his bearings by asking the man at the mast.
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Church
Weaver
Leeward
Windward
Why it is Hot at the Equator
Readable fragment shows two African men at Seventh and Lombard discussing weather and the equator. They explain the Earth's rotation and atmospheric friction causing heat at the equator, while poles stay cold. The dialogue includes dialect and racial terms from the era.
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Equator
Philadelphia
Seventh
Lombard Streets
de Quatah
Pusson
Mose
Earth
Outen Wien
Recollections of an Old Man at Washington and Lee University
A. K. McClure recalls early U S growth from a time when population was about one quarter of today s sixty million. He remembers births of eleven of thirty eight states, absence of steamships and railways, the lightning telegraph, ocean cable skepticism, and the West as a savage frontier while education and newspapers were luxuries for the affluent.
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A. K. McClure
Washington and Lee University
Golden Gate
Pacific
Great Northwest
Galaxy of States
Southwest
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