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"Cut the ropes and clear the ship; then try one of the jib-sails, otherwise there will be no such thing as steering," he said. The sailors obeyed quickly. They were approaching nearer and nearer to the reefs, over which the breakers washed with a thundering noise. "If only the jib-sail will stand the pressure on it, perhaps we can avoid the reefs.
And off sped the Valencian galleys, with their jib-sails spread to the wind, convoyed by a shoal of dolphins, which sported about in the foam of their prows!... When the Moors beheld them approaching, the infidels began to tremble, repenting of their irreverence toward the Shrine. And this, despite the fact that they were a set of hardened old dogs. Valencians, headed by the valiant blanquers!
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