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Updated: June 1, 2025
The Shifting of the Current was conformed by the Observed Latitude Wind East-South-East; course South 16 degrees West; distance 29 miles; latitude 7 degrees 58 minutes North, longitude 22 degrees 13 minutes West; at noon, Bonavista, South-East point, North 2 degrees 40 minutes, 161 leagues. Monday, 10th.
We left Bonavista, or Buenavista, on the 3d February, and fell in the same day with another island called Mayo, 14 leagues distant; there being a danger midway between the two islands, but it is always seen and easily avoided.
They are ten in number, of which St Jago, St Nicholas, Bonavista, St Antonio, Brava, Mayo, and Fuego are inhabited. St Jago is much the largest and best, and is the seat of the chief governor. Besides sugar and tobacco, this island produces a small quantity of indigo, which, with goat-skins and some other articles, are sent to Lisbon.
He stopped again, and Laura looked at him steadily with a tinge of colour in her face. "Well," he continued, "that was when I commenced to understand exactly what you had been all along to me. I don't know what came upon me at Bonavista; but though the thing must seem preposterous, I believe I was in love with you then. Now I have nothing to bring you.
In any case, I shouldn't like to think you were displeased at my reappearance. If you are, I can, of course, go away again." "I am not the only person at Bonavista. Wouldn't anybody else's wishes count Mr. Acton's, for instance?" "No," asserted Nasmyth reflectively. "At least, not to anything like the same extent." Violet laughed. "The difficulty is that nobody can tell how much you really mean.
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