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23 I see little and large
sea-dots, some inhabited, some
uninhabited;
I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Pau- manok, quite still;
I see ten fishermen waiting — they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers — they drop the join'd sein-ends in the water,
The boats separate — they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers;
The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats — others stand negligently ankle -deep in the water, poised on strong legs;
The boats are partly drawn up — the water slaps
against them;
On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Pau- manok, quite still;
I see ten fishermen waiting — they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers — they drop the join'd sein-ends in the water,
The boats separate — they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers;
The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats — others stand negligently ankle -deep in the water, poised on strong legs;
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On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
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