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The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales (Classic Reprint)
The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Classic Reprint Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I THE LAST GALLEY "Mutato nomine, do te, Britannia, fabula narratnr." It was a spring morning, one hundred and forty-six years before the coming of Christ. The North African coast, with its broad hem of golden sand, its green belt of feathery palm trees, and its background of barren, red-scarped hills, shimmered like a dream country in the opal ... more »light. Save for a narrow edge of snow-white surf, the Mediterranean lay blue and serene as far as the eye could reach, In all its vast expanse there was no break but for a single galley, which was slowly making its way from the direction of Sicily and heading for the distant harbour of Carthage. Seen from afar it was a stately and beautiful vessel, deep red in colour, double-banked with scarlet oars, its broad, flapping sail stained with Tyrian purple, its bulwarks gleaming with brass work. A brazen, three-pronged ram projected in front, and a high golden figure of Baal, the God of tho Phoenicians, children of Canaan, shone upon the afte
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; I; TAG*; I The Last Galley 3; II The Contest 15; IIT Through the Veil 26; IV An Iconoclast 34; V Giant Maxjmin 45; VL The Coming or the Huns 68; VIL The Last of the Legions 84; VIII The First Cargo 94; IX The Home-coming 105; X The Red Star 124; II; I The Silver Mirror 139; II The Blighting of Sharkey 154; III The Marriage of the Brigadier 173; IV The Lord of Falconbridge 187 V Out of the Running 223; VI, "De Profundis0 245; VIL The Great Brown-Pericord Motor 260; VIII The Terror of Blue John Gap 273
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