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I could swarm down the davits during the stir of arrival, drop into the sea and swim the few yards across the dredged-out channel, wade through the mud to within a short distance of the Dulcibella, and swim the rest. I rubbed the salt out of my eyes and wriggled my cramped legs ... Hullo! why was Grimm leaving the helm again?
He found the bottom after twenty yards, that being the width of the dredged-out channel at this point. 'That's partly luck, Davies .commented; 'we ought to have had the compass as well. We exchanged shouts with the man on the pier to show we had arrived. 'It's very good practice, that sort of thing, said Davies, when we had disembarked. 'You've got a sixth sense, I observed.
A stranger might have taken it for a deep and spacious haven; but this, of course, was an illusion, due to the high water. Davies knew that three-quarters of it was mud, the remainder being a dredged-out channel along the western pier. A couple of tugs, a dredger, and a ferry packet with steam up, were moored on that side a small stack of galliots on the other.
It cannot be Norddeich, which I find has a dredged-out low-water channel for the steamer, so tide 'serves' would not apply. Querry; Scheme of defence by land and sea for North Sea Coast? Tugs and pilots for patrol work behind islands, as I always said. Querry; Rondezvous is for inspecting channels? Querry: To be used as line of communication for army corps.
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