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bells rang merrily out along the decks of a noble corvette, as she dashed gracefully on her way through the long seas and sparkling waves, in her course toward the Virgin Islands, whither she was bound on a cruise. A bright sky and a glorious moon were above her ; while her white canvass, as it rose pile upon pile, and bellied to the soft, but constant breeze, looked like wreaths of untrodden snow on a mountain's side, in the pale and mellow light.