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| 8 | 214 | Then they leaped to the pier and, with View more quotes about smaller">smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
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| 8 | 211 | The helmsmen, at their steering oars, shouting and cursing, brought the barge to its mooring. |
| 8 | 212 | There was a slight shock as the heavy, wet, rolled hides tied at the back of the barge struck the pier. |
| 8 | 213 | The two extra crewmen, standing on the deck, threw great looped ropes over heavy iron mooring cleats fastened in the pier. |
| 8 | 214 | Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
| 8 | 215 | There is no rear railing on the barges and the barge deck matches the pier in height. |
| 8 | 216 | Once the ropes are secured the wagons may be rolled directly onto the pier. |
| 8 | 217 | A man came forward and untied the straps leading to the nose rings of the bosk from the bosk ring on the deck. |