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It was four bells in the morning watch. We had just finished breakfast when the order came forward for the watch on deck to stand by to heave her to and all hands stand by the boats.
"Port! hard a port! " cried our sailing-master. "Clew up the topsails! Let the flying jib run down! Back the jib over to windward and run down the foresail! " And so was our schooner _Sophie Sutherland_ hove to off the Japan coast, near Cape Jerimo, on April 10, 1893.