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He addressed us in English, a language better understood than any other amongst the Mikado's subjects. "You are American?" he asked, pointing to the star-spangled banner on the pole-mast. "What is the name of your vessel?" We informed him, and received in return that of the warship, but in our consternation we paid little heed to it, and none of us could afterwards remember it.
The sound of the splash was in my ears and the echo of my own laugh, but with it there mingled a cry from Billy Priske, and shaking the water out of my eyes I saw him erect in the stern-sheets and astare at a vision parting the fog the vision of a tall fore-and-aft sail, golden-grey against the sunlight, and above the sail a foot or two of a stout pole-mast, and above the mast a gilded truck and weather-vane with a tail of scarlet bunting.
She was a pole-mast, schooner-rigged steam yacht, Charley accurately told me, with clipper bow and spiked bowsprit. "About a hundred tons?" I inquired. "Yes. A hundred feet long, beam twenty feet, and she draws twelve feet," said Charley; and I thought I detected the mate listening to him.
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