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to hear my answer, stands clear in my memory 
to-day; and how calmly and resolutely those four 
in the engine-room worked after hearing that we, 
having lost an anchor, were driven by the furious 
gale among rocks and icebergs, and that everything 
now depended upon what could be done by the 
engines! As the pressure of steam was brought to 
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a point when the boilers could stand no more, the 
regular pulsation of the engines quickened, the 
vessel seemed to have become a living being, 
while the heart-beats from the engine-room had 
become so strong that they were felt all over the 
vessel. All the night through we were in great 
anxiety, although the vessel, by the help of the 
engines. at full speed, assisted by two new big 
anchors, just managed to keep its position in the 
