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The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales

The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank Thomas Bullen is available here as the complete text, split into 783 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank Thomas Bullen. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1356.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
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  1. Chapter I TO THE BLUFF, AND HOME And last--In high-toned 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Outward Bound 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Preparing for Action 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Bad Weather 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Actual Warfare. Our First Whale 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Getting Southward 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Abner's Whale 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Our First Calling-Place 89 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX Round the Cocos and Seychelles 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Which Treats of the Kraken 42 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Liberty Day--and After 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Which Comes Uncomfortably Near Being the Last 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII "Bowhead" Fishing 39 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV On the "Line" Grounds 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Edging Southward 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Progress of the "Humpback" Season 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Farewell to Vau Vau 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII At Futuna, Recruiting 66 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 54 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Paddy's Latest Exploit 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI To the Bluff, and Home 19 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Company--another
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Picnic--depart
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Bluff--hey
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Among
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