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The Islanders' Experience of Foreign Trade.

return in a ship of his own manned by a crew of English sailors, and laden with machinery and mechanics, was hailed with great joy by everyone in the island. The ship was a speeialspecial [sic] attraction to every boy in Isle Pleasant, and the sailors soon became general favourites. There were a dozen lads who anxiously looked forward to the first outward-bound journey of the Carrier Pigeon, as the ship was called, for each had a hope that