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Perhaps it was lucky they did not succeed in this attempt, for the boat would no doubt have been crushed like an eggshell on the rocks. Instead, they began to float down parallel with the coast, carried on the crest of the big tide-bore which every day passes down the east coast of Kadiak between the long, parallel islands which make an inland channel many miles in extent.
But soon they saw that this was something worse than any creature of the deep. "It's the tide-rips!" cried Rob, anxiously. "The tide-bore is going out the channel I've heard them tell of that before. Look out, now! Give way, and put her into it quartering, or it'll swamp us, sure!" A thousand angry, choppy waves pitched alongside the dory, as though reaching up and trying to come aboard.
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