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King found that former navigators had taken that part of the coast he named Point Cloates for an island, calling it Cloates Island; the next day Vlaming Head, of the North-West Cape, came in sight, and a north course bore him to Rowley Shoals, wishing to fix their position with greater correctness, and to examine the extent of the bight round Cape Leveque, which during the earlier part of their voyage they were obliged to leave unexplored.
I had also attended many lectures, some occasionally, others regularly, such as those of Janet, Caro, Leveque and Taine. Of all contemporary French writers, I was fondest of Taine. I had begun studying this historian and thinker in Copenhagen. The first book of his that I read was The French Philosophers of the Nineteenth Century, in a copy that had been lent to me by Gabriel Sibbern.
King's Third Voyage Early misadventures Examines North-West coast closely The Mermaid careened Unforeseen result Return to Sydney The Bathurst King's Fourth Voyage Last of the MERMAID Love's stratagem Remarkable cavern Extraordinary drawings Chasm Island South-West explorations Revisits his old camp Rich vegetation Greville Island Skirmish at Hanover Bay Reminiscence of Dampier His notes on the natives and their mode of living Cape Leveque Buccaneers' Archipelago Provisions run out Sails for the Mauritius Survey of South-West re-commenced Cape Chatham Oyster Harbour anchorage A native's toilet Seal hunt Friendly intercourse Cape Inscription Vandalism Point Cloates not an island Vlaming Head Rowley Shoals Cunningham Botanical success Rogers Island closely examined Mainland traced further An amazing escape from destruction Relinquishment of survey Sails for Sydney Value of King's work Settlement on Melville Island Port Essington Colonisation Fort building A waif Roguish visitors Garrison life Change of scene Raffles Bay Dismal reports Failure of attempt.
I used to come and spend Sundays here occasionally with a friend of mine, Rose Leveque, with whom I lived in the Rue Pigalle, and Rose had a sweetheart, while I had none. He used to bring us here, and one Saturday he told me laughing that he should bring a friend with him the next day. I quite understood what he meant, but I replied that it would be no good; for I was virtuous, monsieur.
Captain Dampier saw forty Indians together on one of the rocky islands to the eastward of Cape Leveque, and in his quaint description of them says: "The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world.
For a long time M. Le Courtois carried on missionary work among the Indians. In 1822 M. Duguay became curé; he went to Malbaie after being curé at Isle aux Coudres. In 1832 he was succeeded by M. Zephérin Lévêque who, in 1840, was followed by M. Alexis Bourret. This curé was something of a scholar.
The history of American settlement could, I suppose, be read in those wayside letter-boxes, in such names, for instance, as "Theo. Leveque" and "Paul Fugle," which, like wind-blown exotics from other lands, we found within a few yards of each other. One name, that of "Silvernail," we decided could only lawfully belong to a princess in a fairy tale.
One afternoon, as Pascal and Clotilde turned the corner of the Rue de la Banne, they perceived Dr. Ramond on the opposite side of the street. It had chanced that they had learned the day before that he had asked and had obtained the hand of Mlle. Leveque, the advocate's daughter.
And he told the story an unexpected piece of good luck which his father-in-law, M. Leveque, had brought to light. The receipts for the hundred and twenty thousand francs, which constituted Pascal the personal creditor of Grandguillot, were valueless, since the latter was insolvent.
Leveque, the lawyer's daughter?" she asked. "She is prettier and richer than I am, and I know that she would gladly accept you. My dear friend, I fear that you are committing a folly in choosing me." He did not grow impatient, seeming still convinced of the wisdom of his determination. "But I do not love Mlle. Leveque, and I do love you.
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