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4 months ago chained_bear said:

"'Mr Mowett,' said Jack, 'I am going ashore with the Doctor... you will anchor the ship, gackling your cables a good twenty fathom.... Do not forget to gackle your cables, Mowett.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 361

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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Make Someday, by chained_bear