Tales of the clipper ships

The knot of frowsy females--that strange and ghoulish sisterhood which frequents such dismal spots as faithfully as dramatic critics the first nights of theatres--who stood mono...

The old “Giaour”--_she_ started life as a steamer, in the days when steam was suffering from over-inflation, and a good many speculators were scalding their fingers badly with i...

“Lower Road, Deptford.”... Why, he was less than a quarter of an hour’s walk from the Surrey Commercial Docks, where the “Maid of Athens” was even now lying, having just finishe...

Most of all, it was the fact of being once more occupied that brought him solace. By what queer doctrine of theologians, by what sheer translator’s error, did man’s inheritance...

“Mind you, it didn’t worry me any! On the whole, I liked it. I was a youngster, with no best girl or anything of that sort to trouble about, and I enjoyed it. There was somethin...

They stood together, Rawlings and he, in the little saloon, panelled with bird’s-eye maple in the style once considered the last word in elegant ship decoration, with its shabby...

The red-faced mate had given his last order, and was coming down the gangway with the virtuous and anticipatory look of one at ease with his own conscience after a spell of ardu...

The next day bright and early he attended with his crowd at the shipping office, where, having duly heard the ship’s articles mumbled over, the party appended their signatures a...

This was so obviously a lie that it only made matters worse, and they parted a trifle coolly; Anderton refusing an invitation to enjoy the pleasures of London that evening, as d...

From Sydney she went over to Newcastle to load coal for Chile, then on to ’Frisco with nitrates, ’Frisco to Caleta Buena again, over again to Newcastle, and last of all to Sydne...