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CHAPTER III. A little History.--Early Commerce.--Coal Fleets and Timber

Rafts.--We start on a Voyage.--I seek Information.--Some Music.--The

Trouble begins.--Tall Talk.--The Child of Calamity.--Ground and

lofty Tumbling.--The Wash-up.--Business and Statistics.--Mysterious

Band.--Thunder and Lightning.--The Captain speaks.--Allbright

weeps.--The Mystery settled.--Chaff.--I am Discovered.--Some Art-work

proposed.--I give an Account of Myself.--Released.

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