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He was then as much in love with Annie, as when he first married her, and he said that she made him perfectly happy. The last time I met him, he had just been notified that he should be given the command of a fine ship on his return to New York; consequently he was in high spirits. "When I next arrived in New York harbor, I made it my first duty to call on Annie.
A great fortune was amassed, and a barony in the Canton of Berne, on the Lake of Geneva, was purchased as no bad harbor for the rest of his days. There he hoped to enjoy the vast wealth he had so industriously acquired.
De Soto remained about three months in Cuba, making a tour of the island, establishing his government, purchasing horses, and making other preparations for the expedition to Florida. While thus engaged, he sent a vessel, with a picked crew, to coast along the shores of the land he was about to invade, in search of a commodious harbor, where his troops might disembark.
The English upon this, after grappling with the nearest ships, threw a number of their forces on land; these arranging themselves on both sides of the harbor, a furious battle commenced on land and water at the same instant. Thus the first great naval victory of the English destroyed the first fleet that had been possessed by France."
"About this time expect a storm," it says, and in the ten days of the aforesaid time the storm is pretty apt to come. So, to my joy, I found in Plymouth on my few days there on Forefathers' Day week just about the weather Bradford reports for that first voyage of the Mayflower's shallop to its harbor.
"Any man," he said, "who thinks that modern Europe will go smoothly, quietly on, needs a dose of your harbor to open his eyes." He turned to me with a sudden thought. "Why don't you write a book," he asked, "about this harbor you have known!" Eleanore made a quick move in her chair. "That's just what you ought to do!" she exclaimed. "I wonder if I could," I said.
"Oh, if we only had one experienced gunner, he would drive the ship from the harbor," he thought. Lieutenant Willard tried three or four shots, and one struck the bow. With glass in hand, Fernando remained on the earthworks, watching the effect of their balls and giving orders to the gunners, while balls and shells flew screaming around him.
"Oh, it's partly a sailing vessel and partly a rowing boat," said the Skipper. "She's a very fine ship," he added, proudly, "come and have a look at her." The children followed him to a kind of rough harbor, where a most extraordinary craft was moored.
Our ships moved rapidly about, up and down, past Cavité five times. Admiral Montojo came out in his flagship, the Reina Christina, to attack the Olympia. The Olympia poured such a storm of shot at her that she was compelled to turn back toward the harbor. But the Reina Christina had met her doom.
After proceeding a little further I came in sight of the harbor or port of destination of this drowsy navigator. This was the Broeken-Meer, an artificial basin, or sheet of olive-green water, tranquil as a mill-pond.
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