In Search of an Unknown Race — page 251: what you’re looking at

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VAN, 237 answer, and changed the subject as quickly as possi- ble. A fair wind hurried the Rattler up the beautiful bay, and when the sun rose on the following morning the white painted schooner was swinging at her moor- ings a pistol shot from the city wharves, and a cable’s length from the great four-masted American ship, Bel- lingham. And now Van Briscoe’s voyagingis over. All the sur- prise, amazement and delight felt by Captain Peterson at the recovery of his vessel and his adopted son, can— if I may be allowed to use the old expression—be better imagined than described. The good captain gladly undertook to carry out Van’s promise to his dark skin- ned crew, with all of whom he shook hands heartily before leaving the Rattler’s decks. A few days, stay in San Francisco to rest and recruit, and provide himself with a suitable wardrobe, and then Van Briscoe, bidding adieu to Captain Peterson till they met again, took his departure overland for the Eastern States in search of his treasures. Eomicdoo “S (E(0) AL