OUT-SAILED BY OUR CONSORT. 



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owned both, and was on a trading expedition down along the coast. 

 In the thick fog we had lost her : supposing her to be still behind us 

 the continued sounding of the fog horn, more often than otherwise 

 necessary, was to let her know where we were. Imagine our surprise 

 when, on the lifting of the fog for a few moments, we just saw the 

 vessel in the dim distance ahead, and not behind us ; she had got 

 ahead, and kept so, for the rest of the voyage, outsaiHng us ; we 

 could not and did not catch her at all until near our second stop- 

 ping place at Bonne Esperance, nearly eight hundred miles from 

 Quebec. 



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