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'The Adventures of Captain Horn' is an 1895 adventure novel by Frank
R. Stockton published by Charles Scribner's Sons. It was the
third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. The sequel 'Mrs.
Cliff's Yacht' was released in 1897.


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In the early spring of 1884, the three-masted schooner Castor, en
route from San Francisco to Valparaiso, encountered a violent tornado
off the coast of Peru. The storm, which struck with terrifying
swiftness, was brief but devastating. It left the Castor in ruins, her
masts snapped and lost overboard, her rudder shattered by the falling
debris. The ship was left adrift, rolling in the sea's trough as the
floating remnants of her masts and spars battered against her sides.


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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12190 'The Adventures of Captain
Horn'] full text at Project Gutenberg


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