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| 16 | 12 | The raft is guided by a sweep at its View more quotes about stern">stern, in the keeping of the steersman. |
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| 16 | 9 | I flung the cone out from the raft, into the darkness, allowing the line to uncoil from my left hand, following the vanishing, sinking cone. |
| 16 | 10 | I shared the raft with eight others, three, who handled cones as I, the "harvesters," four polemen and the steersman. |
| 16 | 11 | Harvesters and polemen, periodically, exchange positions. |
| 16 | 12 | The raft is guided by a sweep at its stern, in the keeping of the steersman. |
| 16 | 13 | It is propelled by the polemen. |
| 16 | 14 | The poles used are weighted at the bottom, and are some twenty feet in length. |
| 16 | 15 | One of the poles, released in deep water, will stand upright in the water, about a yard of it above the surface. |