With Christ in Sailor Town What the Seamens Mission is Doing
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It is but rarely that a sailing ship returns direct from her first port of call. More frequently she journeys from port to port, carrying whatever she can get to fill her hold with, until at last she secures a home- OF SAILOR TOWN 83 ward cargo, "such as grain from California, nitrate from the West Coast of South America, or guano from the same neighbourhood. She is thus often two years away, and the men who have remained by her during the whole of the time accumulate quite a sum of money, ofte...n 60 or 70.
This makes them a most desir- able prey for the villains who fre- quent the purlieus of Sailor Town, and explains the furious outbursts of wrath against our authorities by the rascaldom of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Dunkirk. Their anger is easily understand- able, because our Board of Trade has granted many facilities to seamen to return home quickly 84 THE WESTERN LIMIT and have their money forwarded from the pay-table, so that they shall escape the awful lures spread for them in those vilest of seaports, diversions of so abominable a character that it is a matter for profound congratulation that our laws effectually prevent anything of the same nature from flourish- ing in our midst.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is but rarely that a sailing ship returns direct from her first port of call. More frequently she journeys from port to port, carrying whatever she can get to fill her hold with, until at last she secures a home- OF SAILOR TOWN 83 ward cargo, "such as grain from California, nitrate from the West Coast of South America, or guano from the same neighbourhood. She is thus often two years away, and the men who have remained by her during the whole of the time accumulate quite a sum of money, ofte...n 60 or 70.
This makes them a most desir- able prey for the villains who fre- quent the purlieus of Sailor Town, and explains the furious outbursts of wrath against our authorities by the rascaldom of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Dunkirk. Their anger is easily understand- able, because our Board of Trade has granted many facilities to seamen to return home quickly 84 THE WESTERN LIMIT and have their money forwarded from the pay-table, so that they shall escape the awful lures spread for them in those vilest of seaports, diversions of so abominable a character that it is a matter for profound congratulation that our laws effectually prevent anything of the same nature from flourish- ing in our midst.
What to read after With Christ in Sailor Town What the Seamens Mission is Doing?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Frank Thomas Bullen to read onlineMoreLess
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