DISCOMFORT AND DANGER 



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not lose a watch. That this was trying, a little incident well 

 shows. At the end of a hard "trick," I started for my bunk, 

 but in my weariness sat on the edge of a boat which was lashed 

 on deck and partly filled by the boarding seas; I slipped into 

 the water and was found there by the skipper sound asleep - 

 and was none the worse for it. There were weeks at a time when 

 we worked as men do who are fighting for life ; the curious thing 

 is we did not notice it until long afterward. 



