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Mayo turned away and went back to his work They were rigging

extra stays for the irl near the

coach-house door was staring at hiloo s to be tied to the catheads

The bags were huge gunny sacks stuffed with cotton waste which was

saturated with oil

In spite of the fact that her spanker, double-reefed, was set in order

to hold her up to the wind, weather-vane fashion, the schooner see seas The oil slick

helped only a little; every few

fro tons of water between

rails, with a sound like thunder At these ti torrent in

the waist would reach to a man's knees

Mayo did not take his watch below The excitement of his recent

experience had driven away all desire for sleep, and the sheathing in

the fo'c'sle was squawking with such infernal din that only a deaf man