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Harding had a lot of those miserable sick men putting gaskets on the main-lower-topsail. How far would that be above the deck, Mr. Pike?" "Let me see . . . the Lallah Rookh." Mr. Pike paused to consider. "Oh, say around a hundred feet." "I saw it myself. One of the green hands, a tramp and he must already have got a taste of Mr. Harding fell off the lower-topsail-yard.
Never, in the whole voyage, did our crew spring to it in more lively fashion. And lively fashion was needed to save our gear. As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath- knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes. The first infraction of our agreement was on the main-lower-topsail. This they attempted to furl.
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