Buyers had to be willing to toss their old anchors overboard every weekend.

Very often drowned men, old anchors, sunken boats-everything ,infact!

We suddenly lost the old anchors and blew adrift, strange new theories filling our sails.

Immediately in front was a strip-notconsiderable-ofrough grass, dotted with old anchors, capstans, and so forth; then a broad path; then the beach.