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As soon as I had the _Curlew_ swung round upon her course again I noticed something peculiar: we were not going as fast as we had been. Our favorable wind had almost entirely disappeared.
This, at first, we did not worry about, thinking that at any moment it might spring up again. But the whole day went by; then two days; then a week,--ten days, and the wind grew no stronger. The _Curlew_ just dawdled along at the speed of a toddling babe.