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Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak and a refusal to face up to the wind when hove to. Snark took them to Hawaii, and then to the Marquesas and Solomon Islands; everywhere they were overwhelmed with South Seas hospitality. Jack London was able to admire the sailing qualities of Polynesian catamarans and succumb to the pleasures of life ashore,...
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