The book Following the Equator, a Journey Around the World was written by author Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Here you can read free online of Following the Equator, a Journey Around the World book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Following the Equator, a Journey Around the World a good or bad book?
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After a wait of three hours we got good rooms in the Mahinapua, a wee little bridal-parlor of a boat — only 205 tons burthen ; clean and comfortable ; good service ; good beds ; good table, and no crowding. The seas danced her about like a duck, but she was safe and capable. Next morning early she went through the French Pass — a narrow gateway of rock, between bold headlands — so narrow. CATTLE STALLS ON THE FLORA. 304 FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. in fact, that it seemed no wider than a street. The ...current tore through there like a mill-race, and the boat darted through like a telegram. The passage was made in half a minute ; then we were in a wide place where noble vast eddies swept grandly round and round in shoal water, and I won- dered what they would do with the little boat. They did as they pleased with her. They picked her up and flung her around like nothing and landed her gently on the solid, smooth bottom of sand — so gently, indeed, that Ave barely felt her touch it, barely felt her quiver when she came to a standstill.
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