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Twenty Years Before the Mast.
other two right side up, while a fourth, in the horizon, showed nothing but the hull and the stumps of the lower
MIRAGE.—THE PEACOCK.
mast, as in the sketch. On board the Peacock, at the same time, they had three reflections of our ship. Science tells us that these reflections are caused by concave surfaces of the atmosphere when it consists of warmer and colder strata. The ship Relief came through the Straits of Magellan and surveyed them. In doing so she came near being wrecked off Nor Island, at which place she lost all her anchors.
On the 12th of May, at daylight, we made the coast
