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| 5 | 189 | These constructions were mounted on platforms. |
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| 5 | 186 | "What are they doing?" View more quotes about asked">asked a man. |
| 5 | 187 | "I do not know," I said. |
| 5 | 188 | Men on the masts of the Portia were unslinging the ropes which held the tops of the long, heavy planked constructions back against the masts. |
| 5 | 189 | These constructions were mounted on platforms. |
| 5 | 190 | When freed of the masts they leaned back against the platforms. |
| 5 | 191 | Other men were busying themselves at the foot of the masts, where they were lengthening and playing out the chains that attached the platforms to the masts. |
| 5 | 192 | When they had done this other men, with shoulders and levers, and hauling on ropes, moved the platforms, which were on long, solid rollers, with their planked constructions, away from the masts, one to port, the other to starboard. |