Question

what had the narrator been doing for past 16 years​

Answer 1

Answer:

We're are not afraid to die. The narrator planned to go on a round-the-world sea voyage on the same pattern as captain James Cook had done 200 years earlier. For the past 16 years, he and his wife had spent all their leisure time developing and improving their skil with work-related to travel on the sea.

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