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 1    1,    5|    increased.~The DUNCAN was to sail out with the tide at three
 2    1,    6|       at a push, I could reef a sail or plait a gasket easily
 3    1,    7|      wheel, and the DUNCAN will sail as easily to Calcutta as
 4    2,    1| announced that the DUNCAN would sail immediately for Australia.~
 5    2,    5|         hold out with so little sail, and what sail could resist
 6    2,    5|        so little sail, and what sail could resist such violence
 7    2,    5|         crew ready to alter the sail at any moment, and stay
 8    2,    6|         to the determination to sail round the Australian coast,
 9    2,   18|      him lose an hour. He is to sail for Twofold Bay at once;
10    2,   19|         the same horizon. Not a sail enlivened the vast stretch
11    3,    1|        about the ships ready to sail. He expected to find frequent
12    3,    1|      What else?”~“When does she sail?”~“To-morrow at the mid-day
13    3,    2|       sad occurrence Tasman set sail, confining his revenge to
14    3,    3|       needs were, you could not sail the MACQUARIE into Auckland?”~“
15    3,    4|         upper yard to bring the sail to its smallest size.~Two
16    3,    4|        go about under shortened sail, and badly trimmed as she
17    3,    5|       but we should have had to sail by day and anchor at night.”~“
18    3,    6|         and carried a makeshift sail. A large broad-bladed oar
19    3,    6|         to the ship’s side.~The sail was spread, and the frail
20    3,    6|       then at full stretch. The sail was taken in, and everything
21    3,    6|       of two knots an hour.~The sail was spread. They drifted
22    3,    6|         V. IV Verne tirely. The sail flapped idly against the
23    3,   16|       arrangements, you were to sail over to New Zealand, and
24    3,   20|      this was covered over with sail cloth, carefully tarred
25    3,   20|         a statue.~“Shall we set sail, my Lord?” asked John Mangles.~“
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