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| 9 | 162 | As the Tuka View more quotes about slipped">slipped in the sand, being drawn backward into the river, water from the hold rushed about my feet, for a moment some six inches in depth. |
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| 9 | 159 | The Tuka is a large ship and I could stand upright within her first hold. |
| 9 | 160 | I felt her move beneath me, impelled again by the ropes and men, toward the river. |
| 9 | 161 | It was dark in the hold. |
| 9 | 162 | As the Tuka slipped in the sand, being drawn backward into the river, water from the hold rushed about my feet, for a moment some six inches in depth. |
| 9 | 163 | It then drained through the rupture. |
| 9 | 164 | I could feel the wet wood beneath my bare feet. |
| 9 | 165 | Beneath the first hold is the lower hold, but this is little more than a damp crawl space, containing the bilge, and sand, which, on Gorean vessels, commonly serves as ballast. |