Arrow The Arrow, however, had to make a long detour to avoid colliding with a lumbering coal-laden junk, which, as usual, would not budge or make an effort to get out of the way until the very last moment, The Arrow lost quite a mimtite in consequence.
The race down was productive of thoroughly hard work, consisting of a dead beat from shortly after rounding the mark-boat until Tank-a-doo was reached; but long before this point was made, the Arrow had passed the Fairy and challenged the Phantom tack for tack—the Zephyr meanwhile rapidly increasing her lead, until she was finally lost sight of amid the forest of junks' masts and ran home an
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