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Islanded.
Chapt. 9

Sam Jenkins' Story.

Can it be so — and of a truth
Think ye that on the billowy main
They all have perished in their youth
And ne'er shall greet their friends again?

It seemed that Burton's father, alarmed at our protracted absence, had been down on horseback early that morning, asking if we had been seen since the gale.  Jenkins hearing of it had gone up the coast to where we had expected to land, enquiring at every house on shore.  Mr. Burton went around to the Argonaut, which had been towed in, but no one knew which way we had sailed after leaving her.  He met the long-shore-man [[strikethrough]] on his [[/strikethrough]] returning who suggested that we might have put up for