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Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as me-- playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in his body, like--you wouldn't think it too much, mayhap, to give him one good word? , the same that blew now: and having no sails to work the ship with but a main course, and a kind of square sail upon a jury fore-mast, which they had set up, they could not lie near the wind, but were endeavouring to stand away for the Canaries. |
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