Hurricane Island (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hurricane IslandI had stood for some minutes, drinking in the better air, when there were voices near, suddenly risen out of the ¿ood, and I perceived two men had landed. They paused by me for one to relight his pipe, and in the ¿ash of the match I gathered from the dresses that they were stevedores, newly come, no doubt, from unloading some vessel. But my attention was taken off them unexpectedly by a great ¿are that went up into the sky apparently in mid-channel.It made a big bright ¿ame, quite unusual in that resort of silent lights, and one of the stevedores commented on it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.