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  1    1,    1|         July, 1864, a magnificent yacht was steaming along the North
  2    1,    1|        main-mast. The name of the yacht was the DUNCAN, and the
  3    1,    1|        member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, so famous throughout
  4    1,    1|         the starboard side of the yacht, with a big hook at the
  5    1,    1|           to make rapidly for the yacht, beating the waves violently
  6    1,    1|     passengers and sailors on the yacht were watching all the animal’
  7    1,    1|           up over the side of the yacht and thrown on the deck.
  8    1,    3|           that he competed in the yacht races of the Royal Thames
  9    1,    3|         races of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.~Edward Glenarvan was
 10    1,    5|           in her opinion that the yacht might safely attempt the
 11    1,    5|            The DUNCAN was a steam yacht of the finest description.
 12    1,    5|       double screw. This gave the yacht such swiftness that during
 13    1,    5|         the captain of a pleasure yacht, he was one of the best
 14    1,    5|           and provisioning of the yacht his chief business, he did
 15    1,    5|         was the PERSONNEL of this yacht, so unexpectedly called
 16    1,    5|   fly-boat, and yet this pleasure yacht of Lord Glenarvan was quite
 17    1,    5| self-sacrificing voyage, left the yacht and repaired to St. Mungo’
 18    1,    6|          you are so proud of your yacht that you make me wish to
 19    1,    6|        said Lord Glenarvan. “This yacht is a portion of our old
 20    1,    6|        first.”~The steward of the yacht was an excellent maitre
 21    1,    6|         watching the track of the yacht. After some minutes of this
 22    1,    7|          the DUNCAN is a pleasure yacht, is it not?” began Paganel
 23    1,    7|   unreserved admiration. Let your yacht continue her course. I should
 24    1,    8|           RESOLUTION~MEANTIME the yacht, favored by the currents
 25    1,    8|          immediate orders for the yacht to continue her route, steering
 26    1,    9|        the 25th of September, the yacht arrived off the Straits
 27    1,    9|           easy of access, but the yacht did not drop anchor in any;
 28    1,   10|     whatever was visible, and the yacht continued her route, till
 29    1,   10|         Glenarvan returned to the yacht to report his ill success.
 30    1,   10|           on the quay, and as the yacht turned round to pursue her
 31    1,   26|       Austin hailed the invisible yacht, but there was no response.
 32    1,   26|          as the Atlantic, but the yacht was a good ship, and the
 33    1,   26|     observed the movements of the yacht. It was evident that John
 34    1,   26|           in the direction of the yacht. They listened and looked,
 35    1,   26|      issuing from the side of the yacht.~“They see us!” exclaimed
 36    1,   26|           out his arms toward the yacht, which was now rolling violently.~“
 37    1,   26|         hand, and pointing to the yacht, said: “Come!”~The Indian
 38    1,   26|        hurrahs of the crew on the yacht.~Thus the journey across
 39    2,    1|     embrace everyone on board the yacht, and beginning with Lady
 40    2,    1|        pampas so roughly, but the yacht had borne it bravely, and
 41    2,    1|          brought him on board the yacht, the documents were submitted
 42    2,    2|          ISLE OF AMSTERDAM~IF the yacht had followed the line of
 43    2,    2|          retard the motion of the yacht. But he was not long uneasy
 44    2,    2|        right quarter, so that the yacht could spread all her canvas,
 45    2,    2|           Captain Grant as if the yacht were going to take him on
 46    2,    2|      think right.”~Meanwhile, the yacht was making rapid progress.
 47    2,    2|         the party returned to the yacht, chattering and admiring
 48    2,    3|         Viot, and returned to the yacht, wishing him all the happiness
 49    2,    4|         sea remain favorable, the yacht would have reached the end
 50    2,    5|         the horizon.~Hitherto the yacht had been favored by a strong
 51    2,    5|        the powerful propeller the yacht would have been obliged
 52    2,    5|         completely lifting up the yacht.~“Haul up the foresail!”
 53    2,    5|         unnaturally loud, and the yacht made a frightful pitch,
 54    2,    5|           front to the storm. The yacht turned about like a swift
 55    2,    5|        most solid portions of the yacht, and kept her in the right
 56    2,    5|         gigantic albatrosses.~The yacht had risen once more, but
 57    2,    5|        sea would out-distance the yacht, and the angry billows would
 58    2,    5|           instant he expected the yacht would dash against some
 59    2,    5|            be obliged to cast the yacht on shore.~“To save the lives
 60    2,    5|          find any opening for the yacht, and if she doesnt find
 61    2,    5|           his moistened eyes.~The yacht was only a few cableslengths
 62    2,    5|     moment.~In twenty seconds the yacht reached the bar. Now was
 63    2,    8|          But when he examined the yacht with a sailor’s eye, the
 64    2,    8|        DUNCAN is a regular racing yacht, and would never let herself
 65    2,    8|      hurrahs burst forth from the yacht as the boat rowed off. In
 66    2,   15|          that the presence of the yacht would be very useful, and
 67    2,   16|    detachment of sailors from the yacht under his orders.~Glenarvan
 68    2,   17|        Chief Officer on board the Yacht DUNCAN, Melbourne.”~Then
 69    2,   19|        Ben Joyce was boarding the yacht; when the DUNCAN, loosing
 70    2,   19|       departure of Ben Joyce. The yacht must be at this moment at
 71    2,   19|           suppose the~V. IV Verne yacht could not go to sea; suppose
 72    2,   19|          for a week.~“Perhaps the yacht has not started,” Glenarvan
 73    2,   19|           The good, honest Scotch yacht was now a pirate ship in
 74    3,    4|          What then, my Lord?”~“My yacht! the DUNCAN,” said Glenarvan,
 75    3,    4|        for that day at least, the yacht did not appear, and the
 76    3,   15|        despair.~It was indeed the yacht, they could not mistake
 77    3,   15|         could not mistake her—the yacht and her bandit crew!~The
 78    3,   15|         nearer to the DUNCAN.~The yacht was coming down at full
 79    3,   15|        heard, and a ball from the yacht’s cannon passed over their
 80    3,   16|        travelers who had left the yacht three months before, so
 81    3,   16|           back to the deck of the yacht they never thought to see
 82    3,   16|         wretches who attacked the yacht.”~“What yacht? Your Honor’
 83    3,   16|        attacked the yacht.”~“What yacht? Your Honor’s?”~“Why, of
 84    3,   16|          convict. The crew of the yacht, without understanding the
 85    3,   17|         shame at failure. On this yacht which he thought he was
 86    3,   17|         parallel. From thence the yacht, being amply provisioned,
 87    3,   17|    afterward the beak-head of the yacht was turned toward Talcahuano,
 88    3,   17|          of Lord Glenarvan to the yacht soon gave place to dejection.
 89    3,   18|           escape me, and with the yacht once mine, I was master
 90    3,   18|        they had kept watch on the yacht, and at length, weary of
 91    3,   19|           on the right track.~The yacht therefore continued her
 92    3,   19|     thirty miles distant from the yacht, whose stem was rapidly
 93    3,   19|            In the forepart of the yacht the man on watch was pacing
 94    3,   19|      leaning over the side of the yacht, wanted to throw herself
 95    3,   19|          of the night before.~The yacht was coasting along the island
 96    3,   20|       before they had reached the yacht. The scene which followed,
 97    3,   20|         first act on touching the yacht, which to him was the soil
 98    3,   20|      passage from the isle to the yacht, his children had given
 99    3,   20|           no signal came from the yacht. Deliverance was there,
100    3,   20|           and had got so near the yacht that I was scarcely thirty
101    3,   20|         dawned, and there was the yacht sailing nearly alongside,
102    3,   20|          the boat returned to the yacht. It was then four oclock
103    3,   21|           devoid of incident. The yacht was simply carrying home
104    3,   21|         lights of Cape Clear. The yacht entered St. George’s Channel,
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