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    i carried the contagion with me, and on the evening of the day on which we lost sight of land, another hand died, and three more were taken ill.

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      still i congratulated myself that i was no worse off, since other vessels had lost half their crews while in port royal, and some in much less time than we had remained there.

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        we sailed prosperously through the windward passage, so close to cuba that we could plainly distinguish the trees and shrubs growing upon it, and hen shaped our course nort-easterly, to clear the bahamas and gain the great ocean.

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          we had seen and lost sight og crooked island three days, when it became all at once a dead calm; even the undulation of the sea, commonly called the ground swell, subsided;

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            Well done that man

            What comes after TPDeity
            Confusion is a natural state of being

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              the sails hung slackened from the yards; the vessel slept like a turtle on the ocean, which became smooth as a summer mill-pond.

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                the atmosphere could not have sustained a feather; cloudless and clear, the blue serene above and water below were alike spotless, shadowless, and stagnent.

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                  i'm happy to stick with tpdeity!

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                    dissapointment and impatience were exhibited by us all, while the sun, flaring from the burning sky, melted the pitch in the rigging till it ran down on the decks, and a beefsteak could have been broiled on the anchor-fluke.

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                      we could not pace the planks without blistering our feet, until i ordered an awning over the deck for our protection; but still the langour we experienced was overpowering.

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