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Synopsis
It is high tide and three o'clock in the afternoon when we leave the Battery-quay; the ebb carries us off shore and as Captain Huntly has hoisted both main and top sails- the northerly breeze drives the Chancellor briskly across the bay.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)