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 150 the rest of the trip; but little I cared; I loathed her, any way.

The way we came to mistake the sounding-boat's lantern

"HAULED ABOARD."

for the buoy-light was this. My chief said that after laying the buoy he fell away and watched it till it seemed to be secure; then he took up a position a hundred yards below it and a little to one side of the steamer's course, headed the sounding-boat up-stream,