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Page 251 - ... own weight and the renewed violence of the gusts. At this critical instant while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted with a crack that even reached the ears of Wilder. "Lie down!" he shouted fearfully through his trumpet; "down by the backstays; down for your lives; every man of you, down!
Bibliographic information
| Title | Cooper's Works, Volume 10 Cooper's Works, James Fenimore Cooper |
| Author | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Publisher | Stringer and Townsend, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2005 |
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