In Search of an Unknown Race — page 214: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXX. A LETTER FROM MAPLETON. Wirtn the voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, across the Indian Ocean, and through the Straits of Sunda to the China Sea, this story has nothing to dao. As I have said regarding the cruise of the Rattler, this is not a sea tale and Van's seagoing experiences are simply the connecting links between more important epochs in his eventful life. So it is sufficient to say that the Bellingham reached Yokohama in safety one hundred and thirty-two days from New York. Here, among other letters awaiting the captain, was one from his sister Martha, mentioned in the earlier part of this narrative. Now for good and sufficient reasons Captain Peterson had never taken his sister into his confidence regarding the strange letter he had received from Richard Briscoe more than a year before, and his own intentions with respect to it. ‘‘Time enough for Patty to know when we see how the thing turns out,” he had reasoned; ‘‘for she’s such a hand to worry that she'd have Van and me dead a dozen times over, if she knew we were undertaking such & venture,” GOMmichbooks (E(0)