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| 16 | 280 | I bit at the View more quotes about leather">leather binding on the handle of the sword I carried. |
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| 16 | 277 | More battle horns sounded. |
| 16 | 278 | Not far off I could hear the clash of weaponry betokening yet another fierce ingress of boarders upon the deck of some vessel of hapless buccaneers. |
| 16 | 279 | A dozen ships off the wharves must have been in flames. |
| 16 | 280 | I bit at the leather binding on the handle of the sword I carried. |
| 16 | 281 | I tore loose a strip of it and, with this cordage, improvised a wrist sling. |
| 16 | 282 | If it were necessary to use my hands in the water I did not wish to risk losing the weapon. |
| 16 | 283 | Then, clutching the weapon, the sling about my wrist, I vaulted the rail and, feet first, entered the water. |