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CHAPTER I. THE "PILGRIM."
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On the 2nd of February, 1873, the "Pilgrim," a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43° 57', S. and long. 165° 19', W. She was a schooner1, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas.
James Weldon was accustomed every season to send his whalers both to the Arctic regions beyond Behring Straits, and to the Antarctic Ocean below Tasmania and Cape2 Horn; and the "Pilgrim," although one of the smallest, was one of the best-going vessels3 of its class; her sailing-powers were splendid, and her rigging was so adroitly5 adapted that with a very small crew she might venture without risk within sight of the impenetrable ice-fields of the southern hemisphere: under skilful6 guidance she could dauntlessly thread her way amongst the drifting ice-bergs that, lessened7 though they were by perpetual shocks and undermined by warm currents, made their way northwards as far as the parallel of New Zealand or the Cape of Good Hope, to a latitude8 corresponding to which in the northern hemisphere they are never seen, having already melted away in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
For several years the command of the "Pilgrim" had been entrusted9 to Captain Hull10, an experienced seaman11, and one of the most dexterous
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schooner
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skilful
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lessened
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seaman
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dexterous
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apprentice
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embark
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promiscuous
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gathering
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seamen
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needy
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emigrants
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quota
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cargo
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n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物 | |
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tack
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latitudes
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mortification
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流氓( rascal的名词复数 ); 无赖; (开玩笑说法)淘气的人(尤指小孩); 恶作剧的人 | |
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entirely
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marred
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embarking
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enjoyment
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lanky
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utterly
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dominant
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zoology
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n.动物学,生态 | |
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botanist
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n.植物学家 | |
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geologist
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zoologist
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n.动物学家 | |
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aspire
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decompose
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versed
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reptiles
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subdivided
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leech
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scorpion
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shrimp
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grasshoppers
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黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 ); 胡蜂; 易动怒的人; 刻毒的人 | |
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moths
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gnats
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parasites
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乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事 | |
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scrupulously
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grumbling
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cramped
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perfectly
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