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Updated: May 17, 2025
His keen grey eyes noted and measured every capricious lake-wave as it lunged at him, and his wrist, cunning and powerful, delicately varied each stroke to meet each instant's need. It was not enough that the canoe should be kept from broaching-to and swamping or upsetting.
But forget the danger, and admire the sublimity of this terrific panorama." Well might Eve thus term the scene. The hazards now to be avoided were those of the ship's broaching-to, and of being pooped.
The poor fellow sank to the deck all in a heap, without a groan, without a quiver of the body, and I sprang to the wheel just in time to save the schooner from broaching-to. "Anyone hurt there, for'ard?" I shouted; for I saw two or three men stooping as though to help someone. "Yes, sir," answered one of the men; "poor Tom Parsons have had his chest tore open, and I doubt it's all over with him!"
The most that could be done was to keep the ship dead before it, to prevent her broaching-to, and to have a care that she kept clear of those rocks and of that bottom, for which Nanny Sidley had so much pined.
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