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| 8 | 26 | That View more quotes about path">path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars. |
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| 8 | 23 | A punt, from the flagship, moved ahead. |
| 8 | 24 | Two slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling. |
| 8 | 25 | Two other slaves stood forward with glaves, lighter poles, bladed, with which they cut a path for the following barges. |
| 8 | 26 | That path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars. |
| 8 | 27 | The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water. |
| 8 | 28 | The oar-master cried out angrily and turned to the helmsman, he who held the tiller beam. |
| 8 | 29 | The helmsman stood at the tiller, not moving. |