asked the captain , gloomily . `` The sea breaking on a reef , '' said Alan . `` And now ye ken where it is ; and what better would ye have ? '' `` Ay , '' said Hoseason , `` if it was the only one . '' And sure enough , just as he spoke there came a second fountain farther to the south . `` There ! '' said Hoseason . `` Ye see for yourself . If I had kent of these reefs , if I had had a chart , or if Shuan had been spared , it 's not sixty guineas , no , nor six hundred , would have made me risk my brig in sic a stoneyard ! But you , sir , that was to pilot us , have ye never a word ? '' `` I 'm thinking , '' said Alan , `` these 'll be what they call the Torran Rocks . '' `` Are there many of them ? '' says the captain . `` Truly , sir , I am nae pilot , '' said Alan ; `` but it sticks in my mind there are ten miles of them . '' Mr. Riach and the captain looked at each other . `` There 's a way through them , I suppose ? '' said the captain . `` Doubtless , '' said Alan , `` but where ? But it somehow runs in my mind once more that it is clearer under the land . '' `` So ? ''
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