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One could not well cut the chain behind the grapnels, but axes cut at the rails, and several of the grapnels, given the stress of climbers, broke loose. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #200)

And behind the catapult was a vat, filled, from the odor, with burning pitch. Archers were dipping arrows, whose shaft, behind the point, was wrapped in cloth, which cloth was then saturated with flaming pitch, which arrows, one after another, were then being fired into the hull. This, doubtless, was what had been determined earlier by Cabot, with the glass of the Builders. One could not well cut the chain behind the grapnels, but axes cut at the rails, and several of the grapnels, given the stress of climbers, broke loose. We heard men plunge back, into the sea, or onto the small boats at our hull. I heard more striking of arrows into the hull. I saw more than one man, trying to free the hold of a grapnel, felled by a long arrow, fired from one of the small boats. - (Mariners of Gor)