The boarding took place in good order. The raft could take on all the survivors.
They were nearly five hundred the day before.
Now they were only eighty-two.
Among those were the captain, the doctor, Simon Barigoule, the Parisian, Squirrel, the big Flandrin, Lavenette, Griffard and Robert-Robert.
It was time they left the deck of La Rapide. The transfer …Read more »
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GREENWICH Town in Kent (England), on the right bank of the Thames, 4.34 miles (7 km) S-E from Saint-Paul’s cathedral in London; pop. 469,370. It is particularly famous for its hospital for sailors and its observatory, whose longitude is the only one allowed on English charts. The hospital, opened in 1705, stands on the site of a former royal palace called house of Greenwich, Placentia or The Pleasaunce; it is used today as a hospital for sailors wounded in times of war, the former residents having obtained in 1865 the right to live elsewhere. The observatory was built by Charles II. Greenwich has very important factories.
Extract from the Trousset encyclopedia, 1886 - 1891.
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There are two ways of going up on board. The first one consists in lightly climbing a sort of ladder, made of small cross-pieces of wood nailed to the outside of the ship and to hoist oneself onto the deck with the ropes hanging to each side, in ways of handrails.
Robert-Robert went up this way, but Lavenette couldn’t be persuaded to use it.
“I say! He exclaimed to cover his fright, such a path is only suitable for cats! I have too much respect for my quality of man, my dignity of intelligent and reasonable animal, to agree to degrading myself to such an extent! I mean, really! ”
The other way had to be used, that is …Read more »
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