s'abandonner

Après avoir levé les ancres et lâché en même temps les attaches des gouvernails, ils s'abandonnèrent à la mer, et ayant mis la voile de misaine au vent, ils se dirigeaient vers le rivage.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
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