The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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   PREFACE. Upon my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere,…
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   The Penguin got into port about nine o'clock in the morning, after encountering one of the severest gales ever experienced off Nantucket. B…
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   Getting now hold of the watch, I found, upon applying it to my ear, that it had again run down; but at this I was not at all surprised, bei…
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   Scarcely had the echo of the crash died away, when I heard my name pronounced in an eager but subdued voice, issuing from the direction of…
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   When he had gone, Augustus freed both hands from the manacles and unfastened his feet. He then turned down the head of the mattress on whic…
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   After a few minutes the mate and cook went above, leaving Dirk Peters behind, who, as soon as they were gone, came and sat himself down in…
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   We there found everything safe, and, keeping close to the bulwarks, the three of us crept to the cabin companion-way. It was only partially…
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   When I at length completely came to my senses, I found that the wind blew no more than a moderate breeze, and that the sea was comparativel…
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   Having rested a while after this fortunate discovery, I again descended, and now recovered the chain, with which I instantly came up. I the…
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    We now commenced cutting at the deck with all the energy of rekindled hope, Peters and myself taking the axe by turns, Augustus's wounded a…
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    August 5. To-day, a gentle breeze springing up carried us through a vast quantity of seaweed, among which we were so fortunate as to find e…
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    This group, now so well known, and which consists of three circular islands, was first discovered by the Portuguese, and was visited afterw…
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    January 10. Early this morning we had the misfortune to lose a man overboard. He was an American, named Peter Vredenburgh, a native of New-…
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    The dwellings were of the most miserable description imaginable, and, unlike those of even the lowest of the savage races with which mankin…
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    CHAPTER XXI. As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and grovelling in utter darkness among a qua…
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    As long as this fowl lasted we suffered nothing from our situation; but it was now entirely consumed, and it became absolutely necessary th…
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    We were thus relieved from immediate danger, but our situation was still sufficiently gloomy. We knew that four canoes of the kind we had w…