I leapt into my boots, trousers and jacket, tumbled all my gear, lying ready laid out, into my bag, donned helmet and goggles, seized charts and rushed to the upper deck.... the sea was calm under a heaving swell. Engadine towered above my cockle-shell. (Robert Erskine Childers)

I leapt into my boots, trousers and jacket, tumbled all my gear, lying ready laid out, into my bag, donned helmet and goggles, seized charts and rushed to the upper deck.... the sea was calm under a heaving swell. Engadine towered above my cockle-shell.

Robert Erskine Childers

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