Altogether it was no such ill night to keep the seas in ; and I had begun to wonder what it was that sat so heavily upon the captain , when the brig rising suddenly on the top of a high swell , he pointed and cried to us to look . Away on the lee bow , a thing like a fountain rose out of the moonlit sea , and immediately after we heard a low sound of roaring . `` What do ye call that ? '' asked the captain , gloomily . `` The sea breaking on a reef , '' said Alan . `` And now ye ken where it is ; and what better would ye have ? '' `` Ay , '' said Hoseason , `` if it was the only one . '' And sure enough , just as he spoke there came a second fountain farther to the south . `` There ! '' said Hoseason . `` Ye see for yourself . If I had kent of these reefs , if I had had a chart , or if Shuan had been spared , it 's not sixty guineas , no , nor six hundred , would have made me risk my brig in sic a stoneyard ! But you , sir , that was to pilot us , have ye never a word ? '' `` I 'm thinking , '' said Alan , `` these 'll be what they call the Torran Rocks . '' `` Are there many of them ? '' says the captain . `` Truly , sir , I am nae pilot , '' said Alan ; `` but it sticks in my mind there are ten miles of them . '' Mr. Riach and the captain looked at each other . `` There 's a way through them , I suppose ? '' said the captain .
`` Doubtless , '' said XXXXX , `` but where ?
Alan Ay Hoseason Riach Shuan Torran guineas night second stoneyard