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เนื้อหาย่อ : "Break out the main!"' The first mate's shout echoed down the deck. It sent a deeen seamen hurrying aloft to the mainmast yard to set semselves at intervals along its length. Swifly, they un- sed the ropes that held the sail bunched to the yard. The geat expanse of canvas unfurled with the sound of rolling sunder and bellied out taut in the wind. The ship, now et from her jibs to her tops, jumped forward with a fresh burst of speed as she headed north by west out of the Zuider Zee. Far below the men, Willem Barents stood on the quar- erdeck and watched the helmsman aim the ship into the Wadden Zee. He turned to look astern. There, one hun- dred yards back, was his sister ship, with her own mainsail