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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean By: R. M. Ballantyne

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

By: R. M. Ballantyne

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Library of Alexandria, July 2009

#6330 in History
#2667 in Religion & Spirituality > New Age
#37340 in Fiction & Literature

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The beginning—My early life and character—I thirst for adventure in foreign lands and go to sea. Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and in mans estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the woody glens and upon the hill-tops of my own native land, but an enthusiastic rover throughout the length and breadth of the wide wide world. It was a wild, black night of howling storm, the night in which I was born on the foaming bosom of the broad Atlantic Ocean. My father was a sea-captain; my grandfather was a sea-captain; my great-grandfather had been a marine. Nobody could tell positively what occupation his father had followed; but my dear mOther used to assert that he had been a midshipman, whose grandfather, on the mOthers side, had been an admiral in the royal navy. At anyrate we knew that, as far back as our family could be traced, it had been intimately connected with the great watery waste. Indeed this was the case on both sides of the house; for my mOther always went to sea with my father on his long voyages, and so spent the greater part of her life upon the water

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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

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