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Chapter 27: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: the Jolly-Boat’s Last Trip
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XXVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded. Five grown men, and three of them--Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain--over six feet high, was already more than she was meant to carry. Add to that the powder, pork, and bread-bags. The gunwale was lipping astern. Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards.
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