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Title: The Missing Ship
The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley

Author: W. H. G. Kingston

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21470]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

The Missing Ship; The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley, by W.H.G. Kingston

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This is a long and exceptionally well-written book by this prolific
author. It is full of interest and strong situations. The date of the
events is supposed to be early in the eighteenth century, and of course
all matters nautical are under sail (or oars). That date is stated in
the Preface.

The copy of the book that was used for this transcription was quite hard
to work with, mainly because the type appeared to have been set a bit
close to the gutter (the fold down the centre of the open pages).
However, it later appeared that the book had been kept for a long time
in some position that caused a fold in the pages near to the gutter, so
that the scans were more usable than was at first feared.

This book does make an exceptionally nice audiobook. The book is fifty
percent longer than the average novel, and takes about 18 hours for the
audiobook to play.

You will enjoy this book a great deal.

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THE MISSING SHIP; THE LOG OF THE "OUZEL" GALLEY, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

THE MASTER OF THE OUZEL GALLEY--HIS SON AND DAUGHTER--THE FIRST MATE--A
CALM--A GALE SPRINGS UP--A RAFT SEEN--OWEN RESCUES ITS OCCUPANT--DAN,
AND POMPEY, THE BLACK COOK--SURMISES ABOUT THE STRANGER--THE GALE
CEASES--THE STRANGER APPEARS ON DECK AND GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF--
GIVES FIRST NEWS OF WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE--LANCELOT CARNEGAN
BECOMES SECOND MATE OF THE OUZEL GALLEY.

"No sign of a breeze yet, Owen?" asked Captain Tracy, as he lay in his
cot, slung in the state-room of the _Ouzel Galley_, West India trader,
of which stout bark he was the commander. His fair daughter Nora