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Speaker 1: Turning then to the local spruce and pine, they continued

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Speaker 1: A few days later, he died. The maiden voyage was

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Speaker 1: As Joshua Juwas's son would later note, it was as

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Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClane smith. By October eighteen seventy two,

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