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Updated: June 7, 2025
Donadieu endeavoured to repeat the same manoeuvre, but he could not turn before the wind struck the boat, the mast bent like a reed; the boat shipped a wave. "To the pumps!" cried Donadieu. "Sire, now is the moment to help us " Blancard, Langlade, and Murat seized their hats and began to bale out the boat. The position of the four men was terrible it lasted three hours.
"Yes, the wretch, or rather the imbecile," said Donadieu, "he took us for pirates, and wanted to sink us as if we needed him to do that!" Indeed, a single glance at the boat showed that she was beginning to make water.
Soon the two sailors, thinking him asleep, joined the pilot, and sitting down beside the helm, they began to consult together. "You were wrong, Langlade," said Donadieu, "in choosing a craft like this, which is either too small or else too big; in an open boat we can never weather a storm, and without oars we can never make any way in a calm." "'Fore God! I had no choice.
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