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The main hold, for example, if fitted strictly according to rule, or if it be left to the general guess of the superintending shipwright, may chance to be long enough to stow a certain number of water-tanks, together with a foot or two over and above; now this lost space, if thrown into the after-hold, might prove sufficient to gain another entire "longer," or range of provision-casks.
That Cavendish would never abandon them they knew, but it was easy to think of a dozen circumstances or accidents to defer his search for them indefinitely. Roger and the two seamen rolled up a few of the casks to the door of the little shelter, and, all feeling very hungry, they determined to broach one of them, as they judged from their appearance that they were provision-casks.
I hoped they would all be provision-casks; I never thought they would contain aught else!" "Never despair, Master Trevose," replied Bevan, "they may not be all the same. Let us try another cask. We may have better luck this time." Disheartened and anxious, they set to work, desperate with hunger, and beat in the head of the next cask with savage blows.
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