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by a long mole,) and the lights on the invisible English coast - and were out on the waves with scarcely a gull in sight.

We shipped enough water to wash down the whole deck from stem to stern but that was all, and the sea became almost calm in a day or so.

On the first night after leaving Cherburg we saw the new comet, near Venus which was extremely brilliant.