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We cut through the sands by the Telte. 'The Telte! In a north-west gale! The commander started, ceased to smile, and only stared. 'Herr Dollmann knew the way, said Davies, doggedly. 'He kindly offered to pilot me through, and I wouldn't have gone otherwise. There was an awkward little pause. 'He led you well, it seems? said von Brüning. 'Yes; there's a nasty surf there, though, isn't there?
I don't think I'm suspicious by nature, but I know something about boats and the sea. I know he could have kept close to me if he had chosen, and I saw the whole place at low water when we left those sands on the second day. Look at the chart again. You see the Telte channel dividing into two branches and curving round it. Both branches are broad and deep, as channels go in those waters.
'We soon came to what I knew must be the beginning of the Telte channel. All round you could hear the breakers on the sands, though it was too thick to see them yet. As the water shoaled, the sea, of course, got shorter and steeper. There was more wind a whole gale I should say. 'I kept dead in the wake of the Medusa, but to my disgust I found she was gaining on me very fast.
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