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Of course, it might have been a much shorter distance had they decided to head almost south-west-by-south, making for the Azores, and stopping there to prepare for another flight across to Newfoundland. Going that way, they would have had the benefit of the general easterly winds. But this did not appeal to Tom and Jack for several good reasons.
Yet it was sufficient to cause the course of the frail steamboat to be altered yet a little more from south-west-by-south to south-by-west to give the breakers a still wider berth. 'I wish we had gone by land, sir; 'twould have been surer play, said Sol to Mountclere, a cat-and-dog friendship having arisen between them. 'Yes, said Mountclere.
We saw a small round pretty high island about a league to the north of this headland, within which there was a large deep bay, whither the canoes went; and we strove to get thither before night, but could not; wherefore we stood off, and saw land to the westward of this headland, bearing west- by-south-half-south distance about ten leagues, and, as we thought, still more land bearing south-west-by-south, distance twelve or fourteen leagues, but being clouded, it disappeared, and we thought we had been deceived.
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