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Twenty Years Before the Mast.
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Here, as at all the islands we visited, our boats, the Greyhound, Lion, Fox, Turtle, Nightingale, Lizard,

UPPER TOWN OR SOMER-SOMER.

Leopard, Elephant, White Handkerchief, and Bear, and the two cutters were fitted out and provisioned with eight or ten days’ rations in order to survey the different islands, reefs, and bays.