Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 325
ard-bound ship has been drivenacross the southern Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope —that way to seek a passage to the Pacific. And thatstormy Cape, I doubt not, has sent many a fine craftto the bottom, and told no tales. At those ends of theearth are no chronicles. What signify the broken sparsand… … Rounding Cape Horn 289 sailed from their ports, and never more have beenheard of. Impracticable Cape ! You may approach it from thisdirection or that — in any way you please, from theeast or from thewest; with thewind astern, orabeam, or onthe quarter;and still CapeHorn is CapeHorn. CapeHorn it is…
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