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"Well, I've seen vessels pretty well smashed up, sir. There was the Alabama, coast-schooner: all the crew went down on her in full sight; and the Annandale: she was a coal-brig, and she run aground on a December night. It was a terrible storm: but one surfboat got out to her. They took off what they could the women and part of the crew.
And we was both right, for there was two vessels a coast-schooner down by Squan, where I goes, and this big ship, the John Minturn, just here," pointing with his thumb over his shoulder to the beach outside and bar beyond. "Were there many lives lost?" "Over three hundred all but fourteen. They come ashore tied on to boards or hencoops or the like seven of the crew and seven passengers.
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