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[Dyba P. <sq...@je...>]

Old iron, and other articles of little or no value. What was more, he
ascertained that sandal-wood was to be found on Rancocus Island in small
quantities, and in this group in abundance. A contract was made,
accordingly, for the cutting and preparing of a considerable quantity of
this wood, which was to be ready for delivery in the course of three
months, when it was understood that the schooner was to return and take
it in. These arrangements completed, the Friend Abraham White sailed for
home. Instead of entangling himself in the channels to leeward, Mark
made the land well to the northward, entering the group by a passage
that led him quite down to the Reef, as the original island was now
uniformly called, with a flowing sheet. Of course the schooner was seen
an hour before she arrived, and everybody was out on the Reef to greet
the adventurers. Fears mingled with the other manifestations of joy,
when the result of this great enterprise came to be known. Mark had a
delicious moment when he folded the sobbing Bridget to his heart, and
Friend Martha was overcome in a way that it was not usual for her to
betray feminine weakness. Everybody exulted in the success of the
colony, and it was hoped that the future would be as quiet as it was
secure. But recent events began to give the governor trouble, on other
accounts. The accession to his numbers, as well as the fact that these
men were seamen, and had belonged to the Rancocus, set him thinking on
the subject of his duty to the owners of that vessel. So long as he
supposed him self to be a cast-away, he had made use of their property
without compunction, but circumstances were now changed, and he felt it
to be a duty seriously to reflect