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 * We have more to attend to!

PEER
 * It was nonsense, captain! 'Twas only my joke;-
 * as sure as I'm here I will help the cook-

THE CAPTAIN
 * The jib's blown away!

THE MATE
 * And there went the foresail!

THE BOATSWAIN [shrieks from forward].
 * Breakers under the bow!

THE CAPTAIN
 * She will go to shivers!
 * [The ship strikes. Noise and confusion.]

SCENE SECOND
[Close under the land, among sunken rocks and surf. The ship sinks. The jolly-boat, with two men in her, is seen for a moment through the scud. A sea strikes her; she fills and upsets. A shriek is heard; then all is silent for a while. Shortly afterwards the boat appears floating bottom upwards.] [PEER GYNT comes to the surface near the boat.] PEER
 * Help! Help! A boat! Help! I'll be drowned!
 * Save me, oh Lord-as saith the text!
 * [Clutches hold of the boat's keel.]

THE COOK [c