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| 22 | 80 | View more quotes about several">Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley. |
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| 22 | 77 | Swords flashed in the torches. |
| 22 | 78 | Many, we had later learned, had perished in the defile, from concealed arrow fire, but arrows, now, save at short range, a yard or two, given the proximity of the combatants and the confusion, could scarcely find congenial targets. |
| 22 | 79 | The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death. |
| 22 | 80 | Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley. |
| 22 | 81 | "Back oars!" he commanded, and the stern of the galley, backing, pushed its way through small boats and wading men, and, a moment later, he cried "Hold!" and we lifted the oars, and we felt the keel of the galley grate on sloping, submerged sand, at the foot of the shore. |
| 22 | 82 | We were some dozen or so feet from the beach. |
| 22 | 83 | Dozens of terrified men rushed about us, wading in the water, seizing oars, trying to climb aboard. |