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 and had been always pleased at its light- ness and swiftness, and the clever way in which it was managed; but the man that was in the boat this day, was a stranger to them. It soon came up to the ship, and the man in it stood up, and seeing the mate on deck said, "So I hear you are not allowed to sail where you like." "You are mistaken," said the mate, "we are allowed to sail where we like, for we like to go where our owner has told us; but we are not allowed to sail to the dan- gerous rocky island, we are not even to go near it, lest the ship should be wrecked." "Oh," said the man, "there is no danger,