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Rh the rudder straight. They did not know where they were going. They only knew they were drifting.

The rain did not come down so hard now, and the wind had slackened. Only once in a while did it lighten and thunder.

It must have been near morning, for a faint, hazy light was coming in through the bull's-eyes windows, when Sammy was suddenly awakened in his bunk by feeling a shock. He jumped out into the middle of the cabin, crying:

"Fellows, we struck something! Maybe we've gone ashore!"