SOME NARROW ESCAPES 
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taking a big sea over the weather side about the 
main rigging, which tore a boat out of the davits on 
the lee quarter. We never saw the boat again. The 
foresail was slatting with a deafening noise, but we 
soon had the sheet in and the wheel put down and 
lashed, and then she rode the seas like a duck. We 
lay to for ten hours, after which the wind moderated 
and we made sail again, reaching Yokohama on 
November 23, thirteen days from Raikoke. 
