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fine, though the wind was ahead, and with the engines 
kept going and our fore and aft sails, we managed to 
make a few knots in nearly the right direction. Every one 
made the most of the gleam of fine weather. We have 
turned out all our wet books on deck, and got our bunks dry, 
and have our clothes hanging out to dry on the rigging. 
Aft on the quarter-deck the sailmaker is busy patching 
up our tonj sails, of which we have quite a collection now ; 
the flying jibboom carried away in one of the squalls, so 
we shall have to have a new one made. The whale lines 
were hauled out from below the cabin on to the quarter- 
deck and dried in the sun, everything in the after-hold, 
sails and lines, being more or less wet with the water that 
had come on board and made its way through the cabin- 
floorine and hatches to the sail-room. The Bakena was 
plodding along steadily when we turned in, with a light 
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