The sun., 1897-01-17
A FO'CASLE SAILORS BOOK
THE WEIRD YARS TOLD M ANoLD-
TIME YANKEE SEAMAN.

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| ouar,ers AND in th. eour.. of half an hour
smoke was reported as coming out of the fore
, and main matches. They didn't dare to lift n
hatch, nor would any one have dared To so down
there u th~y hAa, so 'neS got 'he carpenter 10
chop small holes In the d-ck. and they put the
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the force pump and dumped ior dear NE
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! Hght' Out Wheh Ih auui''oh thete bo hunureus
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aud strength pumping water IN among them
by this time tho Cinnamon themselves were
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eu"ooa'"S WV t"o ""1 "e~' ~ D, "ou,U
seem they had eApee'eu 'n"t the crew "ouI0
open the matches to get down and put out th'
n,. and that would he their chanc. tn ve, or
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deck ana take eh"rs" OF tue snip H"oouo'
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iii iii "a. umtn ,h.y couli hardly hNHe ncrr
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49,, - see. and their iii, uviy mouth. wer,
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- ,h.y sn nmIrned iii @ n ncs, ~ eel. Even m,
, | por,uguesr Cnn,aiu hadn't IN. heart 10 shoo
any more OF them. hut left them to stew II
their own juicr while he and his officers CAV,
,hsir or,.6,ion IN saving th.ir own lives,