The Cruise of the Albatross or When Was Wednesday The Tenth? A Story of the South Pacific
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780548068489
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction - General
First sentence: ON the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga,-of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty group,-when, suddenly, our dusky Polynesian boy, Nassaline, who was at the masthead on the lookout, gave a surprised cry to "Boat ahoy!" and pointed with his skinny black finger to a dark dot, away southward on the horizon, in the direction of Fiji.