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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Lower the mainsail!" shouted the hermit, for the noise of wind and sea had become deafening. Nigel obeyed and held on to the flapping sheet. The hermit had at the same moment let go the foresail, the flapping of which he controlled by a rope-tackle arranged for the purpose. He then grasped his single-blade paddle and aided Moses in keeping her head to wind and sea.
I remembered that in slipping down the rope-tackle, it was as much as I could do to hold on till I had reached the bottom; and a glance upward after I had reached it, showed the hatchway a vast height above me. I reasoned, then, that if all that space was filled with merchandise quite up to the hatch and no doubt it was then I should have a long tunnel to make.
"Lower the mainsail!" shouted the hermit, for the noise of wind and sea had become deafening. Nigel obeyed and held on to the flapping sheet. The hermit had at the same moment let go the foresail, the flapping of which he controlled by a rope-tackle arranged for the purpose. He then grasped his single-blade paddle and aided Moses in keeping her head to wind and sea.
"Rough work this, my lad, isn't it?" he said every time, and as he spoke his hand went unconsciously to Bruff's head to rub and pat it. Then he was off again, giving orders which package to take next, and securing the loops of the rope-tackle himself. "Now, all together my lads," he shouted, and away went the load.
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