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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Photograph by Hemment
Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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oint several miles distant along thecoast. The Beothic was too far distantfor her lights to be seen, and Bartlettsteered by the outline of the ragged shorea few hundred yards distant and againstwhich the freezing gale was driving. Suddenly the boat, an open one, savefor a tiny cabin forward, gave a tremen-dous lurch that threw every one from hisfeet, and the motor stopped short. Itwas at first thought that she had hit someobstruction in the water, presumably asubmerged ice pan; it was found that shewas not damaged forward, which wouldhave been the case had floating icebeen encountered. The engine wasturned over, but refused to go. CaptainBartlett, who held the crank, noticed thatthe shaft seemed jammed in some man-ner, and instantly surmised that the pro-peller had become entangled in some-thing. A boathook thrust over the stern veri-fied the trouble, and when hauled onboard brought with it a part of the longnet which had been wound about trie pro-peller and which, had it not been an-
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748 THE OUTING MAGAZINE chored, would probably have resulted ina calamity involving the death of some,if not of all, of the party. Scarcely three hundred yards to lee-ward a terrific sea was breaking insmothers of foam on the pinnacles of thejagged rocks that lined the precipitousbluffs of the shore line. At the instantthis thought flashed through the mindsof Rainey and his men, they did not knowthat a fifty-pound anchor held the fisher-mans net to bottom. They did knowthat their boat was helpless, her engineclogged, and they believed she was drift-ing upon the lee shore. It was a time foraction, and Mr. Rainey characteristicallyprepared to go overboard into the freez-ing sea to clear the propeller, a feat whichmight have resulted in his freezing todeath before the ship could be reached. The Only Cheerful Man Aboard At this moment Bartlett and the oth-ers, hauling a portion of the net over theside of the boat, found that it was fast tothe bottom. This dispelled the fear thatthe boat w

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