Quotation from: Tales of the Fish Patrol

Written by: Jack London


We sat in the cockpit and discussed the details of our plan till
eleven o'clock had passed, when we heard the rattle of an oar in a
boat from the direction of the Ghost. We hauled up our own skiff,
tossed in a few sacks, and rowed over. There we found all the
skiffs assembling, it being the intention to raid the beds in a
body.


To my surprise, I found barely a foot of water where we had dropped
anchor in ten feet. It was the big June run-out of the full moon,
and as the ebb had yet an hour and a half to run, I knew that our
anchorage would be dry ground before slack water.

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