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En algunas ocasiones, Jack tuvo la tentación de preguntar cuál era la ruta adecuada a los numerosos pescadores ingleses y holandeses que solían navegar por aquellos peligrosos bancos en dogres, urcas, buzos, barcoluengos y otras embarcaciones de poco calado y que entorpecían el avance de la corbeta porque permanecían en su ruta hasta el último momento o salían de repente de la oscuridad sin llevar ni un farol encendido, forzándola a ponerse en facha.
and there were occasions when Jack was tempted to ask his way of the many fishermen, English and Dutch, who haunted those perilous banks in their shallow-draught doggers, schuyts, busses, howkers, and even bugalets, and who made his progress all the more uneasy by lying across his hawse until the last possible minute or suddenly looming out of the darkness without a single light so that he had to throw all aback.
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