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compact body, and so voracious were they, that they actually 

 leaped out of the water at the sight of the bait. But the very 

 instant that the ship became still they dispersed around her 

 sides, and would no longer bite. After drifting along the Florida 

 coast a stiff breeze rose, and sweeping us into the Atlantic, sent 

 us far upon our favourable voyage." 



