British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco, 1892-1898E. Arnold, 1899 - 206 pàgines |
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... mentioned to Oakland Creek , where on its foul and filthy mud , ships ' lie up ' for months , and where last year ( 1897 ) for a time quite an epidemic of typhoid fever raged . Then there is the Bay of Sausalito , that favourite and ...
... mentioned to Oakland Creek , where on its foul and filthy mud , ships ' lie up ' for months , and where last year ( 1897 ) for a time quite an epidemic of typhoid fever raged . Then there is the Bay of Sausalito , that favourite and ...
Pàgina 37
... mentioned to the sailors that in addition to paying full price for their clothes , they would also be charged a little extra sum in order that various friends of the tailors might receive their share in the profits , and so the sailor ...
... mentioned to the sailors that in addition to paying full price for their clothes , they would also be charged a little extra sum in order that various friends of the tailors might receive their share in the profits , and so the sailor ...
Pàgina 41
... mention , when we are on the tailor subject , that the miserable allowance of pocket - money usually given in port drives men to try and borrow money . Where are they to get it ? The tailor again looms up to the front . ' I am a godsend ...
... mention , when we are on the tailor subject , that the miserable allowance of pocket - money usually given in port drives men to try and borrow money . Where are they to get it ? The tailor again looms up to the front . ' I am a godsend ...
Pàgina 56
... mentioned above , and then the means by which these gentry make a livelihood would be taken away — a prospect which they do not like to contemplate . The facts regarding many hundreds of crews with whom the writer has been intimately ...
... mentioned above , and then the means by which these gentry make a livelihood would be taken away — a prospect which they do not like to contemplate . The facts regarding many hundreds of crews with whom the writer has been intimately ...
Pàgina 71
... mentioned , naturally arrive before a great city , after months at sea , in an excitable and impression- able frame of mind . The ship is anchored half a mile to a mile from the shore . She may lie there one to three weeks before coming ...
... mentioned , naturally arrive before a great city , after months at sea , in an excitable and impression- able frame of mind . The ship is anchored half a mile to a mile from the shore . She may lie there one to three weeks before coming ...
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