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I had to take my trick at the helm, which I was also glad of, as it enabled me to perfect myself in steering. The commander, Captain Gierstien, was a man who had seen much of the world, and was, I have reason to believe, a very good seaman; so was Mr Stunt, the first lieutenant, who was a disciplinarian of the most rigid school; and certainly the ship was in very good order as a man-of-war.
"Come, bear a hand with that main-topsail there," exclaimed Mr Stunt through his speaking-trumpet, "or " What he was going to say I know not, for at that instant there arose the fearful cry of "A man overboard! a man overboard!" It sounded like the knell of a fellow-being. Captain Gierstien was on deck. I was near him.
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