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`` I do n't see any reason why she should , '' I replied . `` Captain Blastblow knows that the party are bound up the Mississippi River . He knows the Sylvania is , at any rate ; and he would not have headed to the southward if he had not intended to make the same trip , always supposing he has misunderstood his instructions . '' `` By six o'clock to-night , if everything holds as it is , we ought to overhaul the Islander , if we do n't miss her in the fog , and Captain Blastblow do n't do any better in her than any one else has ever done , '' continued Washburn . `` But the wind is freshening , Captain Alick . '' `` Yes ; and the barometer indicates that we are to have a bad day of it , '' I replied , looking at the white caps that rolled up to windward of the steamer . The wind was gusty and savage .