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doubled, and on September 6th was only a few 

 miles from the spot where she had been re- 

 ported a month previously. From there she 

 travelled westerly for nearly four hundred 

 miles, turned towards the north and covered 

 another three hundred miles, swung to the 

 east for nearly seven hundred miles and on 

 January, 1893, was only a short distance from 

 the locality in which she was seen in June 

 of the preceding year. Here again this re- 

 markable wreck shifted her course towards 

 the south, crossed her former track twice, and 

 by May was on the border of the tropics, mid- 

 way between Florida and Africa, and a thou- 

 sand miles from where she had been seen in 

 January of the same year. Once more she 

 turned her nose towards the distant shores of 

 America, travelled for six hundred miles in 

 an almost direct course, turned east for one 

 hundred miles, again headed for our coast, 

 and on November loth, 1893, was but five 

 hundred miles from where she was originally 

 abandoned and within the same distance from 

 the Florida coast. Here again commenced 

 that erratic, zigzag behaviour for which the 



