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The Innocents Abroad

CHAPTER V
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Ordinarily it keeps its sail wet and in good sailing order by turning over and dipping it in the water for a moment.

Seamen say the nautilus is only found in these waters between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude.
At three o'clock on the morning of the twenty-first of June, we were awakened and notified that the Azores islands were in sight.

I said I did not take any interest in islands at three o'clock in the morning.
But another persecutor came, and then another and another, and finally believing that the general enthusiasm would permit no one to slumber in peace, I got up and went sleepily on deck.

It was five and a half o'clock now, and a raw, blustering morning.

The passengers were huddled about the smoke-stacks and fortified behind ventilators, and all were wrapped in wintry costumes and looking sleepy and unhappy in the pitiless gale and the drenching spray.
The island in sight was Flores.


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