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An Antarctic Mystery

CHAPTER VII
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The same man." "An English schooner which put in at Tristan d'Acunha eleven years ago ?" "Eleven years, Mr.Jeorling.I had been settled in the island where Captain Jeffrey, of the _Berwick_, of London, found me in the year 1824, for full seven years.

I perfectly recall this William Guy, as if he were before me.

He was a fine, open-hearted fellow, and I sold him a cargo of seal-skins.

He had the air of a gentleman, rather proud, but good-natured." "And the _Jane_!" "I can see her now at her moorings in the same place as the _Halbrane_.

She was a handsome vessel of one hundred and eighty tons, very slender for'ards.


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