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Updated: June 20, 2025
The ship was sheered well to starboard of the Vandalia, the last remaining cable slipped. For a time and there was no onlooker so cold-blooded as to offer a guess at its duration the Calliope lay stationary; then gradually drew ahead. The highest speed claimed for her that day is of one sea-mile an hour.
Not a man stirred; not a man answered. "That's your sort, is it?" he added, returning his pipe to his mouth. "Well, you're a gay lot to look at, anyway. Not much worth to fight, you ain't. P'r'aps you can understand King George's English. I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile.
A little after, Grettir arose, and went to Thorvald the goodman, and told him of his trouble, and prayed bring him out; so did he, and lent him a boat, and brought him out, and Grettir thanked him well for his manliness. But when it was heard that Grettir had swam a sea-mile, all deemed his prowess both on sea and land to be marvellous.
Then Grettir took a purse his mother had given to him, and gave it to the bonder; his brows lightened over the money, and he got three house-carles of his to bring them out in the night time by the light of the moon. It is but a little way from Reeks out to the island, one sea-mile only.
The ship was sheered well to starboard of the Vandalia, the last remaining cable slipped. For a time and there was no onlooker so cold-blooded as to offer a guess at its duration the Calliope lay stationary; then gradually drew ahead. The highest speed claimed for her that day is of one sea-mile an hour.
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