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 1 1     |  SEPTEMBER 27th, 1869.—It is high tide, and three o’clock
 2 VII   | ocean, the phenomenon of the high sygyzian tides will take
 3 VIII  |   the belief that it was the high temperature of the tropical
 4 XIII  |    The sea was still running high, and escape by the boats
 5 XIII  |     appeared to us mountains high, and dashed the spray most
 6 XIII  |     held it, rises half-mast high.~“The picrate! the picrate!”
 7 XV    |   room to hope that the next high tide would set us afloat.~
 8 XV    | would probably be covered at high tide, and persisted in the
 9 XVI   |  take advantage of the first high tide to quit the reef as
10 XX    |   remained uncovered even at high water, but was sufficiently
11 XX    |    ridge of basalt, which at high tide we knew was barely
12 XX    |   Chancellor” was in motion.~High tide would be at twenty
13 XXI   |   were prisoners no more!~At high tide the “Chancellor” weighed
14 XXI   |     happy of their lives.~At high tide this morning, the 24th,
15 XXIII |      from below the keel, as high as the previous leaking-place,
16 XXXII |     fail to rejoice, for the high temperature often makes
17 XXXII | painful.~On the 15th we held high festival. A shoal of fish,
18 XXXIII|  wall about a couple of feet high, which protected us from
19 XXXIII|  20th, the temperature is as high as ever, and the raft still
20 XLII  |   not return. Continuance of high temperature in daytime is
21 XLII  |    and the temperature is as high as ever. The air is heated
22 XLVII |       Meantime the moon rose high in the heavens, and the