drogher

After due discussion they hired a drogher, a country vessel employed in running between the surrounding islands and islets.
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Away flew the drogher amid the roaring seas into the pitchy darkness, which now settled down over the ocean.
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They, at all events, congratulated themselves that they had not been on board the drogher when she was blown away from Saba.
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Higson made a leap into the boat, which shoved off just as the drogher, giving a slight roll, sank from sight.
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It proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.
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Origin of drogher