English at the North Pole: Part 1 of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, The
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Chapter 1. The "Forward"
_ CHAPTER I. THE "FORWARD"
"To-morrow, at low tide, the brig _Forward_, Captain K. Z----, Richard Shandon mate, will start from New Prince‘s Docks for an unknown destination."
The foregoing might have been read in the _Liverpool Herald_ of April 5th, 1860. The departure of a brig is an event of little importance for the most commercial port in England. Who would notice it in the midst of vessels of all sorts of tonnage and nationality that six miles of docks can hardly contain? However, from daybreak on the 6th of April a considerable crowd covered the wharfs of New Prince‘s Docks--the innumerable companies of sailors of the town seemed to have met there. Workmen from the neighbouring wharfs had left their work, merchants their dark counting-houses, tradesmen their shops. The different-coloured omnibuses that ran along the exterior wall of the docks brought cargoes of spectators at every moment; the town seemed to have but one pre-occupation, and that
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