The Storyteller Storm-tossed. Chapter Xxx. in an Open Boat at Sea
"I can't say, Jess. I shall tell the story ; but it is a strange one to re-relate. Your evidence will be thought biassed, and I have no other witness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms
241 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 13
"I can't say, Jess. I shall tell the story ; but it is a strange one to re-relate. Your evidence will be thought biassed, and I have no other witness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →He moved the helm, and brought the stem of the boat on a line with the object. A few minutes went by, when suddenly he exclaimed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fierce storm prevailed on the northern coast last night, during which the schooner Jones' Brothers had an unpleasant experience…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This I did that night until my overmastering fancies so wrought upon me that, had I not had my husband to turn to and accost, I am sure as it is I who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →He did not answer but kept his hand over the side, and watched her with scarcely a wink of the eyes. "Something is wrong with her," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Nobody," he said and, breaking out of his trance, he dashed his hands to his face, and then held them clasped above his head crying, everybody's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This sort of thing comes of sending vessels of this pattern to sea without medical stores—not so much as an ounce of quinine aboard. Only last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →She took me back, ay, to that very hour when father and Richard and I first boarded the "Aurora" in the Tyne; and she unrolled the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was the right kind of foresight in his determination to reduce while the two of them could do it. For the next hour and a half they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific storms have occurred in Spain. One hundred und sixty houses have been destroyed and ten persons killed. There were serious floods at San Sata and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →He could not have advised me better and seeing a good-sized tin bath-tub under the bunk in the captain's cabin, I carried it into my berth, and enjoyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cloud-burst at Austin, in the State of Texas, killed 25 persons. Terrible floods have occurred at San Sata and Manardville, 20 persons being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There were more things to eat than than the beef; for, while hunting after a table cloth, I came across some pots of jam, a quantity of white biscuits,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A great storm at San Pedro, Valladolid, Spain, has destroyed 160 houses. Ten persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A groat tornado swept over Wisconser and Minnesotta, America, and several towne wera wrecked and 150 persons killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Infection was caused by a sick man sleeping with the rest of the men in a small, badly ventilated forecastle or cabin, and in such a vessel as this, if…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"What has happened to you Richard?" I cried, throwing myself down on my knees at his side, and taking his hand in both mine. He was very pale, and the pain that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I felt as in a dream when I quitted the shadow of the cabin and found myself in the glaring sunshine. I had had no time-as yet to think ; the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →But it was no good reasoning with him at that time. His fortitude had temporarily given way to the cruel accident that had befallen him. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although, as Richard had told me, the sun was not long to set, the night could not have been darker had it been midnight. The stars shone with…
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