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ship off to pass it on the gulf or western side. But the light 
proved to be the new one on Sombrero Shoal (just opposite), 
of which the captain had no notice, and she struck a shoal inside 
the main reef. A glance at the chart will show how far these 
captains were mistaken in their estimate of both the force and 
direction of the current. 
times, though rarely, runs strong to the eastward a mile or more 
inside of the reef (at Key West), but that the general set is west- 
ward for a short distance from the main reef.” The idea, how- 
wm, and for five days the experienced onl calms and occa- 
Sonal light airs Pebeoge S shee On the eth 
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Matanzas, but which turned out to be near the Colorados, a reef 
the west end of Cuba 
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he: “ays, that being set by strong southwest currents in the Bay 
Ha te, they fell to leeward and made the Tortugas Islands. 
ving an experienced pilot they ran_ through into the gulf be- 
tween the Tort as and the Quicksands. After beating to wind- 
ward for three ays they stood in, and oe themselves six 
: tailes to leeward of where they entered the Satisfied that 
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and well acquainted with those waters, steered south, supposing ~ 
ad drifted 
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