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| 9 | 138 | The View more quotes about ropes">ropes strained again and the Tuka slipped back another yard. |
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| 9 | 135 | Yet, in the rolling and wash of battle, it had sufficed, at the time, to produce a shippage of water sufficient to produce listing. |
| 9 | 136 | Rendered unfit for combat her captain and crew had abandoned her, doubtless with the intention later, at their leisure, to repair and reclaim her. |
| 9 | 137 | I peered into the rupture in the strakes. |
| 9 | 138 | The ropes strained again and the Tuka slipped back another yard. |
| 9 | 139 | She would soon be free of the bar. |
| 9 | 140 | I considered, as well as I could, from my position outside the hull, what time and materials might be requisite to restore the Tuka to seaworthiness. |
| 9 | 141 | Such repairs, of course, must be made upon the river, and in flight. |