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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: boats be much at a loss to pull on board of the vessel during
fog, or even in very rough weather; as she could be cast loose
from her moorings at pleasure, and brought to the lee side of
the rock. But the SMEATON being only about forty register
tons, her accommodations were extremely limited. It may,
therefore, be easily imagined that an addition of twenty-four
persons to her own crew must have rendered the situation of
those on board rather uncomfortable. The only place for the
men's hammocks on board being in the hold, they were
unavoidably much crowded: and if the weather had required the
hatches to be fastened down, so great a number of men could
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