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I endeavoured to get the courses hauled up, and the top-gallant-sails clewed up, neither of which we could do, as we had neither clue-garnets, bunt-lines, or leach-lines left.
"Hands by the clue-garnets and buntlines man the mainsheet let go those leech-lines, youngster haul aboard." "It's a pity, too, by God," said the captain, looking over the hammock-rails at the French vessel, which was now running before the wind right on to the shore. "Eight or nine hundred poor devils will be called to their last account in the course of a few minutes. I wish we could save them."
Down from aloft, all hands!" he roared upward; then he seized the answering pennant from the flag-locker and displayed it from the rail, begrudging the time needful to hoist it. The men were sliding to the deck on backstays and running-gear, and the mates were throwing down coils of rope from the belaying-pins. "Man both main clue-garnets, some o' you!" yelled the captain. "Clue up!
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