Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


This is the idea: after dark each night we shall hoist our three
metal wash-basins, loaded with inflammables, up to the stays. The
arrangement is such that at the first alarm of a rush, by pulling a
cord the trigger is pulled that ignites the powder, and the very same
pull operates a trip-device that lets the rings slide down the steel
stays. Of course, suspended from the rings, are the illuminators,
and when they have run down the stays fifty feet the lines will
automatically bring them to rest. Then all the main deck between the
poop and the mizzen-mast will be flooded with light, while we shall
be in comparative darkness.

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Old Dominion University CS Dept
Designed by Joan A. Smith for the CRATE project
Created: 2007-2-22T12:35:29Z
Part of the CratePreservation Project
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Part of a series of experiments in web preservation under the direction of Michael L. Nelson, Ph.D.