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Speculation , and profit , are regarded as so many integral portions of the duty of man ; and , as our kinsmen of Old England have set up an idol to worship , in the form of aristocracy , so do our kinsmen of New England pay homage to the golden calf . In point of fact , Daggett had a double motive in now offering his services to Gardiner ; the one being the discharge of his moral obligations , and the other a desire to remain near the Sea Lion of Oyster Pond , lest she should visit the key , of which he had some very interesting memorandums , without having enough to find the place unless led there by those who were better informed on the subject of its precise locality than he was himself . The boats of Daggett assisted in getting the wreck alongside , and in securing the sails and rigging . Then , his people aided in fitting jury-masts ; and , by noon , both vessels got under way , and stood along the coast , to the southward and westward . Hatteras was no longer terrible , for the wind still stood at north-west , and they kept in view of those very breakers which , only the day before , they would have given the value of both vessels to be certain of never seeing again . That night they passed the formidable cape , a spit of sand projecting far to seaward , and which is on a low beach , and not on any main land at all . Once around this angle in the coast , they had a lee , hauling up to the south-west .