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Sailing Alone Around The World

CHAPTER XVI
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And so Hare was there with his outfit, as if he had come to stay.
On his previous visit, however, Boss had nailed the English Jack to a mast on Horsburg Island, one of the group.

After two years shreds of it still fluttered in the wind, and his sailors, nothing loath, began at once the invasion of the new kingdom to take possession of it, women and all.

The force of forty women, with only one man to command them, was not equal to driving eight sturdy sailors back into the sea.[E] [E] In the accounts given in Findlay's "Sailing Directory" of some of the events there is a chronological discrepancy.

I follow the accounts gathered from the old captain's grandsons and from records on the spot.
From this time on Hare had a hard time of it.

He and Ross did not get on well as neighbors.


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