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"So I gave him orders to sail out of the harbor and straight to the Island of Ushant, some twenty-five miles to the west of northwest. "'There's no use going there, said the captain, his name was Dork, 'there's nothing on that blasted bit of rock for you to see. There's no port I could run this steamer into.
"There was a brig about a mile away, and when she saw us layin' to, she put about and made for us, and when she was near enough she hailed to know if anything was the matter. She was a French brig, but Captain Dork understood her, and I told him to bid her 'Good morning, and to tell her that nothin' was the matter, but that we were just stoppin' to rest.
Now I knew we were on the forty-eighth parallel of latitude, for I had looked that out on the chart, so I said to Captain Dork, "'Now, sir! says I, 'I want you to head your vessel, sir, due west, and then to steam straight ahead for a hundred miles, keepin' your vessel just as near as you can on that line of latitude." "I see!" said Mrs. Cliff, very much interested.
"Now, when Captain Dork knew that I was a rich sailor on a lark, he understood me, and he made no more objections, though he said he wouldn't have spent his money in that way; and when he told his crew and his engineers and men about the extra pay, they understood the matter, and they agreed to back her along the forty-eighth parallel just as nigh as they could until they lay to two miles west of Ushant.
I don't know what he did tell her, but she put about her helm and was off again on her own business. "'Now, said I to Captain Dork, 'I want you to back this steamer due east to the Island of Ushant. "He looked at me and began to swear.
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