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| I put the Reindeer about on the other tack, ran up under the lee of a junk, shivered the mainsail into the wind and lost headway, and forged past the stern of the junk so slowly and so near that one of the patrolmen stepped lightly aboard. She had nothing to do, then, but to cover herself with her shawl before going out into the wind and rain. In an instant I faced back, just in time to prevent the vessel from flying up into the wind, and very probably capsizing her. |
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