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—I knows de Triton, and I knows she karn’t upset—’taint possa- 
ble—’cause Sampson wont let her. Why, Sampson karn’t ’ford 
ter have ’er upset—’twould ruin him. I couldn’t live. No; I 
keeps watch all der time; I keeps my eye on ’er; I doesn’t ’pend 
on luffin’ ’er up alone, but yer see—with one hand on her tiller, 
IT hold the main-sheet in t’other hand on a bite, so I ken instantly 
shake der wind all out of ’er main-sail if I seed it coming nor 
furrer den dat house. - And if I ’spects der wind any, I makes 
one man hold ’er jib sheet on a flying turn—’cause e’en if I emp- 
ties ’er main-shect, der wind in der jib mite upset her—no sah! 
T tells yer der Triton can’t upset—’cause Sampson wont let ’er. 
But I ’spects yer opinion, an’’twont do no harm to take der small 
boat along—but no sah! she karnt upsct.” 
And Capt. Charley Mitchell, (now, we regret to say, deceased, ) 
between whom and Sampson a friendly rivalry formerly existed; 
upon another occasion expressed equal confidence in the Frolic, 
(a center-board yacht which he sailed,) and in his ability to avoid 
serious accidents while prosecuting his vocation in water around 
the island of New Providence. ‘‘ Why,” said he, ‘‘ now s’pose 
Mr. I., ye’re way off heah, ever so far from yer home, with only 
a hundred dollars in yer pocket—wouldn’t you be karful of dem 
hundred dollars? Wouldn’t yer mind and study how yer spend 
?em? Well, now, der Frolic is for Mitchell dem hundred dollars. 
No, sah! Mitchell isn’t gwine to lose his boat, ’cause he’d starve.” 
It is pleasant at times, notwithstanding some increase of dan- 
ger, to sail outside the natural breakwaters of the harbor of Nas- 
sau, and cultivate a more intimate acquaintance with an ocean 
which has and requires great continents to restrain and confine 
it when tossed and maddened by the tempests, or when stirred 
to its profoundest depths by the hurricane. A little peril adds 
an agreeable condiment to prosaic life, and breaks a monotony 
which finally becomes oppressive even in an atmosphere that 
