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Our oars occasionally let her drive

with the tide for a minute or two, that a quarter of an hour's rest

proved full assome slippery

stones while we ate and drank e had with us, and looked about

It was like my own marsh country, flat andriver turned and turned, and the great

floating buoys upon it turned and turned, and everything else seemed

stranded and still For now the last of the fleet of ships was round

the last low point we had headed; and the last green barge, straw-laden,

with a brown sail, had followed; and sohters, shaped like

a child's first rude imitation of a boat, lay low in the hthouse on open piles stood crippled in the mud

on stilts and crutches; and slimy stakes stuck out of the mud, and slimy

stones stuck out of the mud, and red land-stage and an old roofless building

slipped into the nation and ain, and made e could It was much harder work