Friday, November 30, 2007

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CAME ON DECK TO FIND THE GHOST heading up close on the port tack and cutting in to windward of a familiar sprit-sail close-hauled on the same tack ahead of us. All hands were on deck, for they knew that something was to happen when Leach and Johnson were dragged aboard. ¡¡¡¡It was four bells. Louis came aft to relieve the wheel. There was a dampness in the air, and I noticed he had on his oilskins. ¡¡¡¡'What are we going to have?' I asked him. ¡¡¡¡'A healthy young slip of a gale from the breath of it, sir,' he answered, 'with a splatter of rain just to wet our gills an' no more.' ¡¡¡¡'Too bad we sighted them,' I said, as the Ghost's bow was flung off a point by a large sea, and the boat leaped for a moment past the jibs and into our line of vision. ¡¡¡¡Louis turned a spoke of the wheel and temporized. ¡¡¡¡'They'd never of made the land, sir, I'm thinkin'.'

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