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Half of us might have been scalded to death; or, at the best, Mazagan might have knocked the Maud all to pieces at his leisure after he had disabled the vessel." "Precisely so."
He has a lame shoulder; but he can help himself with his left hand, and I have put his right arm in a sling, to prevent him from using it," answered Dr. Hawkes. Captain Ringgold struck his bell, and sent for Knott to conduct the patient to his cabin. In a few minutes Mazagan was seated in the chair he had occupied once before as a prisoner. "You wish to see me?" the commander began rather curtly.
"They are getting up the anchor!" shouted Felix a couple of minutes later, after he had brought his spy-glass to bear upon the pirate. "She is evidently going to do something," said the captain, who had taken his usual place at the wheel, while Louis was on the other side of it, where both had remained after the steamer stopped. "What do you suppose Mazagan intends to do now?" asked Louis.
"That ought to knock a hole through the tympanum of his starboard ear," he added with a smile, in a lower tone. "Of course he knew who you were before," added Louis. "He ought to know me, for I fished him out of the water in the harbor of Hermopolis." "If Mr. Belgrave is on board, I wish to see him," continued Mazagan.
When Sir William Kirby Green died suddenly on an embassy in Marrakesh, a rekass carried the news to Mazagan, a hundred and sixty miles, in thirty-two hours; but the Vice-Consul told me that upon reaching his office the man fell down he could not stand to tell the news.
"VICE-CONSULATE FOR GREAT BRITAIN, "MAZAGAN, Oct. 5, 1838. "This is to certify that Abd Allah bin Boo Shaïb es-Sálih, resident at Aïn Haloo in the province of Rahámna, has been duly appointed agent of Edward Vecchio, a British subject, residing in Mazagan: all authorities will respect him according to existing treaties, not molesting him without proper notice to this Vice-Consulate.
"By no means," said Louis with a polite bow and a wave of his right hand. "His Highness, the Pacha, was grossly and disgracefully insulted and assaulted by Captain Ringgold, who has so far declined to make any apology or reparation such as one gentleman has the right to require of another. Can you deny this statement?" "Proceed, Captain Mazagan; I have nothing to say," repeated Louis.
It was possible that Mazagan had come by this conveyance; and he gave Scott the information. "Probably he stopped at the station while we were on board of the Ophir, or your party had gone to the town," said the commander. "It was easy enough for him to stow himself away in the cabin of the Maud while no one but Philip was on board of her."
Another man was a grain merchant in Mazagan. All were interesting, and could tell us a great deal about the country. On the entire six hundred miles' length of coast south of Cape Spartel, and down which we were steaming, there is not a single lighthouse, bell, beacon, or buoy to mark a reef or shoal, nor is there any harbour, and no steamer dares to lie close in-shore off a port at night.
Early one morning we set forth upon our last march, back again to the coast, by the track which leads eventually to Mazagan, a seaport some distance farther north than Mogador. Here we hoped to pick up a steamer, and proceed, viâ Tangier, across to Gibraltar, where it would be possible to get a P. & O. boat and head for home. The march to Mazagan was easy, and contained little incident.
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