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He took it and looked:
"Don't appear to be any night-hawk on the jack-staff--it's the Amaranth,
dead sure!"
The captain took a good long look, and only said:
"
Damnation!"
George Davis, the pilot on watch, shouted to the night-watchman on deck:
"
"
"
How's she loaded?"
Two inches by the head, sir."
'T ain't enough!"
The captain shouted, now:
"Call the mate. Tell him to call all hands and get a lot of that sugar
forrard--put her ten inches by the head. Lively, now!"
"Aye-aye, sir."
A riot of shouting and trampling floated up from below, presently, and
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