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The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket

comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South seas, in the month of June, 1827. With an account of the recapture of the vessel, by the survivors ; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine ; their deliverance by means of the British schooner Jane Guy ; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Anarctic Ocean ; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.
  
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