I can remember a passage from the book where the LI says:
"Man kann ein gut getrimmtes Boot sogar am Periskop aufhängen."
Well, I'll try a translation (my english is not as good so don't laugh):
"You can hang up your u-boat by the periscope if it's well trimmed."
Consequently the book (or LI) must be wrong here, right?
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"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the
most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature
ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
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Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
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