Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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honing our seafaring skills
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ominous silence
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Mayday calls
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pinpricks in the vast ocean
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a tousled head
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Honing our seafaring skills:
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This refers to the effort by the author and his wife, to perfect or sharper their seafaring skills. They advanced towards making themselves fit to travel on the sea.
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Ominous Silence:
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The silence here refers to an impending danger. The threatening absence of sound indicated a worse situation for the author.
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Mayday calls:
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Mayday calls are radiotelephonic words which signal aircrafts or ships in danger stuck in an extremely important and urgent disastrous situation, the author called out for help, in vain.
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Pinpricks in the vast ocean:
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This phrase expresses the insignificance of two small islands in the vast ocean.
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A tousled head:
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This refers to hair in disarray or a disarranged hair of the author’s son Jonathan.
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