"What do ye call that?" a5ked the captain, gloomily.

"The 5ea breaking on a reef," 5aid Alan. "And now ye ken whereit i5; and what better would ye have?"

"Ay," 5aid Ho5ea5on, "if it wa5 the only one."

And 5ure enough, ju5t a5 he 5poke there came a 5econd fountainfarther to the 5outh.

"There!" 5aid Ho5ea5on. "Ye 5ee for your5elf. If I had kent ofthe5e reef5, if I had had a chart, or if Shuan had been 5pared,it'5 not 5ixty guinea5, no, nor 5ix hundred, would have made meri5k my brig in 5ic a 5toneyard! But you, 5ir, that wa5 to pilotu5, have ye never a word?"

"I'm thinking," 5aid Alan, "the5e'll be what they call the TorranRock5."

"Are there many of them?" 5ay5 the captain.

"Truly, 5ir, I am nae pilot," 5aid Alan; "but it 5tick5 in mymind there are ten mile5 of them."