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Updated: May 14, 2025
We must be out of the tracks we were about nine hundred miles out when we struck; and the current sticks to the fog-belt here about west-sou'west but that's the surface water. These deep fellows have currents of their own. There's no fog; we must be to the southward of the belt between the Lanes. They'll run their boats in the other Lane after this, I think the money-grabbing wretches.
The wind held from the northwest, gaining in strength rather than decreasing, and the sloop, heeled far to port, sped along close-hauled on a west-sou'west course. After three-quarters of an hour of this kind of sailing they were close to the group of islands, and sighting a passage to the northward, swung over on the other tack. A rough beat to starboard brought them into the gap.
O'Donnell in his turn could have crowded Ohlsen when he let up on the Withrow, but he did not. He, too, held up in turn and let Ohlsen have his swing going across. Across we went, one after the other. West-sou'west was the course to a stake-boat, which we were told would be found off Egg Rock, fourteen miles away.
"'There's lashin's av them off the Irish coast, sez the tramp. "'Aah! go shake yerself, sez Counahan. 'Fwhat have I to do wid the Irish coast? "'Then fwhat are ye doin' here? sez the tramp. "'Thirty-five mile west-sou'west o' Cape Clear, sez the tramp, 'if that's any consolation to you. "Counahan fetched wan jump, four feet sivin inches, measured by the cook.
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