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It certainly was a modern yacht that the two of them saw, straining their eyes to identify the stranger roving afar in their waters.
A trick of the sun, or perhaps her paint, had concealed both masts and funnel for a time, presenting only a rakish angle of her prow and quarter, incredibly like a sail of the shape the Dyaks employ.