ABSTRACT
FOR rather more than a year everything prospered exceedingly with the Northwoods. The Paklat was indeed rather too much of a success, for she could scarce keep pace with the expanding trade of Borneo, and had to shut out cargo much too often. This is a danger of which shipowners have to beware, because there is nothing which tempts competition quicker than overflowing freights. Grinston suggested a second steamer, but Captain Northwood would not hear of it. He had had quite enough of having to trust to others, and he positively shuddered sometimes when he thought of Shelby.
