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Cutting the great cable into pieces, such as I could move, I got two cables and a hawser on shore, with all the ironwork I could get; and having cut down the spritsail-yard, and the mizzen-yard, and everything I could, to make a large raft, I loaded it with all these heavy goods, and came away.
That evening the Dolphin began to drop down the river with the tide. She was a fine vessel, not so large, Roger thought, as the Benbow frigate, but she had three masts, with a long mizzen-yard, on which a triangular sail was set.
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