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He handed me a couple of the lamps, and took two himself. "Come on," he said, and stepped out on deck. "We'll fix these in the main rigging, and then I want to talk to you." "What about the mizzen?" I inquired. "Oh," he replied. Anyway, it'll be daylight directly." We shoved the lamps up on the sherpoles two on each side. Then he came across to me.
There was absolutely no wind, and even the everlasting creak, creak of the gear seemed to ease off at times. At the wheel there was nothing whatever to do. I might just as well have been forrard, smoking in the fo'cas'le. Down on the main-deck, I could see the loom of the lanterns that had been lashed up to the sherpoles in the fore and main rigging.
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