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position in which we have to fish for the bass on 

 the rough ground above the yachts. 



We shoot out from the landing place and just 

 above us lie great merchantmen in tiers, flying 



DRIFTING BESIDE FOREIGN HULKS 



the flags of half a dozen nations. Here are timber 

 ships from the Baltic ports ; Italians, come for a 

 cargo of Newton's clay ; coasting vessels from 

 Fleetwood or the Bristol Channel ; a Thames 

 barge alongside a converted trawler from the 

 Humber ; as many types of craft almost as one 

 sees in these latitudes. At so early an hour this 



