"Narrative of A. Gordon Pym of Nantucket", chapter 11, by Edgar Allan Poe

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The image used is "The wreck of the Polly". Frontispiece from scan of the book Lonely ships and lonely seas by Ralph Paine. Illus by George Avison. Published by The Century co., New York, 1921. (First published as individual true sea-stories in Century magazine between 1920-21.)

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