Serve out plenty of whiskey to the hunters and see that a few bottles slip for'ard. I'll wager every man Jack of them is over the side to-morrow, hunting for Wolf Larsen as contentedly as ever they hunted for Death Larsen." "But won't they escape as Wainwright did?" I asked....
From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a brand new thrilling tale of adventure, murder, and mutiny on the high seas. The Wager tells the story of the H.M.S. The Wager, a British ship dispatched in 1740 on a secret mission to chase down and c
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio. The British naval ship the Wager is wrecked on a desolate island off the tip of South America in 1740. The captain and crew struggle to survive and m
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war′der·ship′n. ward·er2 (wôr′dər) n. A baton formerly used by a ruler or commander as a symbol of authority and to signal orders. [Middle English, possibly fromwarden,to ward, from Old Englishweardian; seewer-inIndo-European roots.] ...
The ship is to set sail, and I have arranged all about your passage with the captain "You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you. Follow me and see the good fortune which has befallen you." He then l...
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left...
Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of improving on his method, and hauling ...
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would almost inevitably cause the loss of the wager. But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience nor annoyance; it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme, and had been foreseen. Aouda was amazed ...