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The adventures of wandering Will in the Pacific and the effects of a storm.
""Leak's increasing, sir," said the mate hurriedly ; " we must have started a plank."
This seemed to be too true. All hands were now plying pumps and buckets vigorously, and every effort was being made to discover the leak, but in vain. Hour by hour, inch by inch, the water gained on them, and it soon became apparent that the ship must sink."