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Chapter 5 - This Voyage -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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reported his promotion by the Emperor to a captaincy in the Guards. He watched for the opportunity.

There is a grand one now, for "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." "Today, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Now is the opportunity; embrace it.

There are undercurrents. The wind may blow one way and the current run another, and endanger the course of

 

 
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the ship, therefore they like to take an observation of the sun, and see where they are, for the undercurrent may take them out of their course, and lead them to some rock or sandbank they wished to avoid, and therefore they must alter their course.

There are undercurrents that will take us right out of our course-the insinuations of friends and relations, the influence of some companions, the continued chaff, the sneering ridicule. It is distressing to read of the wreck of some ship which lost her reckoning, and struck on a rock they knew nothing about. Had the reckoning been made up every day they would have seen where they were, but the undercurrent would alter all that, and therefore must be reckoned. In some parts they know the force of a current that crosses their course; they call it "leeway." They have to allow for it, and steer accordingly. Beware of the undercurrents. They are so quiet. Take your latitude and longitude; consult your chart, the grand old chart.

The River Mississippi near its mouth is very deep, the channel is worn so by the continual running of

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