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To get ten or twelve knots out of this schooner you would require a steam engine of some eighty to a hundred horse power . '' `` Ay , '' admitted the skipper , rather unwillingly , `` I s ` pose I should . Three knots an hour . That 's , in round figures , seventy miles from noon to noon . And that , for , say , fourteen days , is -- how much ? '' `` Nine hundred and eighty miles ; call it a thousand , '' answered Cunningham . `` A thousand miles .