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CHAPTER I. STEPHEN ORRY, SEAMAN, OF STAPPEN. In the latter years of last century, H. Jorgen Jorgensen was Governor-General of Iceland. He was a Dane, born in Copenhagen, apprenticed to the sea on board an English trader, afterwards employed as a petty officer in the British navy, and some time in the command of a Danish privateer in an Alliance of Denmark and against England. A rover, a schemer, a shrewd man of affairs, who was honest by way of