Sentence:  As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the <WSD>pull</WSD> was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A journey made by rowing