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Updated: May 20, 2025

To avoid her by outsailing her, he knew to be hopeless except that, by carrying on sail to the very last, he might induce her to do the same, till, perhaps, she might carry away her masts or spars, and the victory might remain with the stoutest and best-found ship.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea