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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 76

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strations of bribes thatCaptain Kellett—to whose skill, perseverance,and courage, all tried in no ordinary manner,we owe the present interesting exhibition—succeeded in putting fairly out to sea with acrew consisting of thirty natives and twelveEnglish seamen, with the officers. The Keying carries… … Fig. 2. and yet here is one, open to our inspection, afterhaving passed over, in a voyage of nearlyseventeen months duration, from China toEngland, a course equal in length to the entirecircuit of the globe. The Keying—so named in compliment tothe Chinese commisioner at Canton—is builtentirely of…

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