Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific—the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh provisions were all exhausted. There is not a sweet potato left; not a single yam. Those glorious bunches of bananas, which once decorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas, disappeared! and the delicious oranges which hung suspended from our tops and stays—they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9788822869302 ● 文件大小 0.9 MB ● 出版者 Herman Melville ● 发布时间 2016 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5124030 ● 复制保护 社会DRM