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Narrow as was the passage, and anchored as she was in the shoalest place that gave room to swing, the Willi-Waw's chain rode up-and-down a clean hundred feet. Its course could be traced over the bottom of living coral. Like some monstrous snake, the rusty chain's slack wandered over the ocean floor, crossing and recrossing itself several times and fetching up finally at the idle anchor.
"South-a-half-west!" "Let her come up south-by-west! Got it?" "Right on it!" Griffiths considered the changed relation of Amboy Point to the Willi-Waw's course. "And a-half-west!" he cried. "And a-half-west!" came the answer. "Right on it!" "Steady! That'll do!" "Steady she is!" Jacobsen turned the wheel over to the savage. "You steer good fella, savve?" he warned.
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