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The water continued to rush into the vessel, until it reached the orlop beams; then, as suddenly, it stopped. When the panic had, to a certain degree, subsided, and they perceived that the water did not increase, all hands applied to the pumps, and by eight o'clock in the morning the vessel was free.
He bent down for a moment over the hatch, holding on to the combing to steady himself in the sea-way, and flung a key on a chain down into the orlop, right among us. 'Take it, he shouted in Dutch, 'and make the most of it. God helps the brave, and the devil takes the hindmost. That said, he stayed not one moment, but turned about quick and was gone.
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