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Thus, after a four months' continuance at sea from the leaving of Quibo, and having but six days' water on board, we arrived in the harbour of Chequetan. He was a buccaneer, a pirate, a circumnavigator, an author, a captain in the navy and an hydrographer.
Later, Dan arranged with the director of a South Street night school of navigation for the evenings when he was in port, and by the time they made him mate of the Hydrographer, he was almost qualified to undergo examination for his master's certificate.
The northernmost channel in our maps, "Maxwell River," is known to Europeans and natives as Noangwa; Mamballa or the central line is called by the moderns Nshibul, and the southern is dubbed by the hydrographer, "Rio Konio," a truly terrible mistake for Sonho.
'Only first-class certificates in gunnery, seamanship, and mathematics; then, to finish up with, the unhappy youth has to look forward to an interview or two with the hydrographer, who isn't at all a gentleman to be made a fool of. How was it that she knew instinctively that this young officer had got his Three Ones nay, that he had carried them off easily, triumphantly?
Astronomer, hydrographer, geologist, and all-round savant, his lank form was already familiar to the Channel Islanders. And, like the wind, he veered around "where he listed." "Great Jupiter aid us!" cried the son of Minerva, "Venus is unpropitious to-night. All my trouble is vain."
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