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The Wreck of a World.
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Dana, a youth of about nineteen, and the warrant officers. With them I arranged that we should leave New Orleans the next day; that my people should be distributed on board the three vessels, and the crew of the Roanoke likewise; that I should be the head of the whole party, and that the officers of the Roanoke should have the sole charge of the navigation.
