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HOIST THE UNION JACK. 
loquacious, but the sight of that flag and the sound of our 
voices hushed the tumult, and while they were still lost in 
astonishment, the boat’s head was speedily turned, the sail 
was sheeted home, both wind and current were in our fa- 
vour, and we vanished from them with a rapidity that sur- 
prised even ourselves, and which precluded every hope of the 
most adventurous among them to keep up with us. 
