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SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD

in for her, I found that she was the cutter-yacht Akbar,[1] which had sailed from Watson's Bay about

"'Is it a-goin' to blow?'"

three days ahead of the Spray, and that she had run at once into trouble. No wonder she did so.

  1. Akbar was not her registered mime, which need not be told.