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Updated: May 1, 2025
These gaily-painted vessels of from twenty to eighty tons, with their high freeboards, wide sterns, raking masts, tanned sails and gaudy vanes, are extremely quaint and picturesque.
It was easy to hide the results of cruelty, for being washed overboard was by no means an uncommon way of disappearing from vessels with low freeboards in the shallow water of the North Sea. A very practical outcome in the mission work was the organization of the Fisher Lads' Letter-Writing Association.
This task having been completed von Gobendorff noticed with a certain amount of apprehension that the freeboards betwixt the edge of the gaping hole and the water was less than four inches. In the excitement of the encounter the Hun had overlooked the fact that already the canoe was within the influence of the rapids.
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