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The jib accordingly was hoisted, and the fore-topsail set with four reefs in it, and an attempt made to weigh anchor.

Just then we were making fourteen knots, with only a foresail, a fore-topsail, and main-topsail, the latter two close-reefed.

Towards morning a loud report was heard, as if a gun had been fired on board: the fore-topsail had been blown from the bolt-ropes.

With the fore-topsail down, we remained stationary; with it up, we gradually moved ahead.

I know her by the token that her fore-topsail hath got a round patch of lighter canvas in it.