Cosmopolitan Volume 39. Anonymous
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Author: Anonymous
Page Count: 286 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230108070
File size: 17 Mb
Download Link: Cosmopolitan Volume 39
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...At twenty-six Captain Paul might have stood the model of a quarterdeck nobility. He had not the advantage of a commanding height; but the lean, curved nose, the clean angles of the jaw, the firmly lined mouth, the steady level stare of the brown eyes, which turned hard as jade when they would, coupled at the earliest smell of opposition with a frowning falcon trick of brow like a threat, were as a commission to him, signed and countersigned by nature, to be ever a leader of men. In figure Captain Paul was five feet seven inches, and the scales giving his weight consented to one hundred and forty-five pounds. His hands and feet were as small as a woman's. By way of offset to this, his shoulders, broad and heavy, and his deep chest, arched like the deck of a whaleback, told of anything save the effeminate. In his movements there were quickness and a catlike graceful accuracy, with over all a resolute atmosphere of enterprise. To his sailors, he was more than a captain; he was a joss, an idol. It was his seamanship that won them. Prudent at once and daring, he shone a master of seacraft, and never the sailor served with him who would not have named him as a mariner without a flaw. He was born to inspire faith in his men. This was as it should be, as displayed by his own picture of a true captain later furnished to Doctor Franklin: "Your captain," he said, when thus informing that philosopher, "your captain, Doctor, should have the blind confidence of his sailors. It is his beginning, his foundation, wanting which he can be no true captain. To his men your captain must be prophet, priest and king. His authority when offshore is necessarily absolute, and therefore the crew should be as one man impressed that the captain like the...
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