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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 421

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these com-binations repre-sented, was pre-pared, adopted, the following code has now become established all over thea code made world, and is known as the International Signal Code. Now when a ship meetsanother ship at sea, hercaptain looks in his sig-nal-book for the combi-nation of flags… … THE FLAG LOCKER. i89S-] WHAT THE FLAGS TELL. 409 questions or tell anything by looking in thesignal-book for the sentences or parts of sen-tences he wants, and hoisting the combina-tion of flags which makes them. In his ownlanguage, the other captain will find the samesentences opposite the same…

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