"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat the British but didn't, ... was caught and chained ... to a rock somewhere in the middle of the sea ... The rock was St. Helena, and a very beautiful rock it is too, hill and and thriving town, its mountain sides tilled and its s and s containing many a fertile little farm. It is the duty of every one who touches the shores of this far-famed island to make a pilgrimage to .... both sides of the road all the way to the tomb are strewn with , empty of course, and at the grave itself there are s of them; and the same is the case at every place which has visit4ed, or where English foot has ever trod."
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William Gordon Stables
(published as Gordon Stables; 21 May 1840 – 10 May 1910) was a Scottish medical doctor and surgeon in the , medical columnist, and author of several non-fiction books and more than 100 boys' , usually with a nautical or historical setting. Stables was a leading authority on dogs. From 1907 to 1910 he was the vice-president of the .
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