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A week later the Captain Grone that is, the galiot hoisted the Dutch flag as the Johanna Maria had done, and started after her with other hundreds on her own deck, I know not how many, but making eleven hundred in the two, and including, for one, young Wagner. Then after two weeks more the remaining ship, the Johanna, followed, with Grandsteiner as supercargo, and seven hundred emigrants.
"Where bound are you?" "To Antwerp. We have a crew on board of the galiot. We will not attempt to take her to Antwerp." "She have taken a pilot," said the Belgian, as another man from the "Bateau Pilote" boarded her. "She shall be taken to Flushing." "You will put into Flushing, then, so that I can obtain the men on board of her." "I will yes."
"All up!" shouted the students, looking around them to find any one who was behind the others in this benevolent deed. "Every one," replied Mr. Lowington, smiling. "Mr. Fluxion, I will thank you to communicate to the master of the galiot the action of the ship's company." The Dutchman stood watching the proceedings of the party with a look of sad bewilderment.
Here was not merely progress, but progress at increasing speed acceleration finally resembling flight, as of eagle or phoenix, eye fixed on the sun: Tyre by the fiftieth year having grown into the biggest of ports, her quays unloading 6,700,000 tons a year, mart of tangled masts, felucca, galiot, junk, cargoes of Tarshish and the Isles, Levantine stuffs, spice from the Southern Sea; while Jerusalem had grown into the recognized school of the wealthier youth of Europe, Asia and America.
It was possible they had noticed the galiot under a jury-mast, and in some manner connected her with the Josephine; but they could have had no other clew to the exciting incidents which had transpired since the two vessels parted company the day before. "I desire to renew my request for a boat, Captain Kendall," said Professor Hamblin, stiffly, the moment the rattling cable of the ship was heard.
Having received the benediction of the bishop, he embarked about the midst of October, in the year 1542, in a galiot, which carried the new captain of Comorin; and took with him two young ecclesiastics of Goa, who had a tolerable insight into the language of the Malabars, which is spoken in the coast of Fishery.
We found her on her beam-ends." "Indeed, Captain Kendall, you have had your hands full," replied Mr. Lowington, pleased with the gallant conduct of his young friend. "The captain of the galiot, he has a name as long as the main royal-mast backstay, and I can't remember it, the captain is on board of the Josephine, and wishes to see you very much. I referred the whole matter to you, sir."
Enraged at the deprivation for he had not touched earth in upward of a year he, some nights after, lowered himself overboard, with the view of gaining a canoe, attached by a robe to a Dutch galiot some cables'-lengths distant. In this canoe he proposed paddling himself ashore.
It was certain that eleven hundred guilders would cover the whole expense of putting the galiot in perfect repair, and the balance of this sum was handed to the skipper. If there ever was a grateful man in the world, that man was the captain of the "Wel tevreeden."
It was midnight when the work was completed, and the report sent to Captain Kendall. Martyn, Pelham, and a crew of ten, to be assisted by Cleats and Gage, were detailed to take the galiot into the Scheldt. During the first part of the night it had been a dead calm, which had greatly assisted the labors of the working party.
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