This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan with help from
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WACOUSTA;
or
THE PROPHECY.
Volume Three of Three
CHAPTER I.
The night passed away without further event on board the
schooner, yet in all the anxiety that might be supposed
incident to men so perilously situated. Habits of long-since
acquired superstition, too powerful to be easily shaken
off, moreover contributed to the dejection of the mariners,
among whom there were not wanting those who believed the
silent steersman was in reality what their comrade had