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chiamarono e colla voce e coi gesti della mano; l'illusione però dovette ben presto cessare, perocché altro non era che una scala, sulla quale un naufrago aveva innalzata una tavola per essere aiutato dal vento e dalla corrente.
they shouted and waved at it, but their dream soon vanished, because it was nothing more than a ladder on which one of the shipwrecked men had raised a plank to gain the help of the wind as well as the current.