There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa
There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa by William Hussey Macy is available here as the complete text, split into 742 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in There She Blows! Or, The Log of the Arethusa
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- Blows
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- Arethusa
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- Nantucket
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- Shepard
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