set as could be carried, and re- The Adler did not, however, go to pieces, but was ports affirm the most skillful seamanship in the manage- very rapidly and the gas is highly heated before it is thrown so far up on the reef that when she turned ment of the vessel. At one time, it is reported, her… … MEYERS’ HYDROCARBON BURNER. would crush the Vandalia to pieces, and about three miles, mostly closed by a coral throw the one hundred men still clinging to reef, but leaving a gateway of about three- Of the 180 officers and men aboard, twenty were fourths of a mile in which ships can enter. There…
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