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`` Just over five thousand nine hundred . '' `` And we 've got nearly all that distance to go down , '' said Drew . `` I 'm tired already . '' But there was no help for it , and they toiled on down among the crevices in safety , and finally reached the brig , but not till close upon midnight , rejoicing , in spite of their weariness , upon a great feat achieved . `` But it caps me , that it do , '' said Smith in the forecastle . `` What does ? '' `` Why , for that Mr Oliver Lane .