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The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)

Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 124

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for himself. So he putsome ragged clothes over his gorgeous uniformand went down to Wapping. Almost immedi-ately members of the press gang seized him andgagged him, and took him aboard one of thevessels anchored in the harbor. As soon as hewas on board the captain ordered him to bebeaten with… … THE PENALTY ly yTUTINY on land or sea is a very serious--^-- affair. But mutiny on the high seas isthe greatest crime a seaman can commit. Nowwhen Vasco da Gama, the first European to sailaround the Cape of Good Hope, was making thewonderful voyage from Portugal to India, someof the crew of his…

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