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 ? '' said Hoseason . `` We 'll have to haul our wind then , Mr. Riach ; we 'll have to come as near in about the end of Mull as we can take her , sir ; and even then we 'll have the land to kep the wind off us , and that stoneyard on our lee . Well , we 're in for it now , and may as well crack on . '' With that he gave an order to the steersman , and sent Riach to the foretop . There were only five men on deck , counting the officers ; these being all that were fit -LRB- or , at least , both fit and willing -RRB- for their work . So , as I say , it fell to Mr. Riach to go aloft , and he sat there looking out and hailing the deck with news of all he saw . `` The sea to the south is thick , '' he cried ; and then , after a while , `` it does seem clearer in by the land . '' `` Well , sir , '' said Hoseason to Alan , `` we 'll try your way of it . But I think I might as well trust to a blind fiddler . Pray God you 're right . '' `` Pray God I am ! '' says Alan to me . `` But where did I hear it ? Well , well , it will be as it must . ''
As we got nearer to the turn of the land the reefs began to be sown here and there on our very path ; and Mr. Riach sometimes XXXXX down to us to change the course .
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