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The king expressed his fears that the personal safety of the travellers would be endangered by the Fellatas, who resided on each side of the river; but Pascoe answered his majesty by telling him, that the English were the gods of the waters, and no evil could befal them in boats, even though all Africa, or the whole world should fight against them.
"Take him into the study," commanded Mrs. Mallathorpe. "I'll come to him presently." She was utterly at a loss to understand Pratt's presence there. Eldrick & Pascoe were not her solicitors, and she had no business of a legal nature in which they could be in any way concerned. But it suddenly struck her that that was the second time she had heard Eldrick's name mentioned that day young Mr.
Poor old Pascoe the black, who buried Belzoni, and whose name occurs so frequently in Clapperton's journal, and the narrative of the Landers, as a faithful and brave servant, died at Attah. For some time, no information which could be relied upon reached this country, relative to the progress of the expedition, although some sinister reports were afloat relative to the fatal termination of it.
"May I explain further?" she asked the judge eagerly. "One moment, please, Mr. Pascoe," said his lordship. He signed to Colina to proceed. "I meant, of course, to bring Nesis here," Colina continued. "When I saw that that I never would, while I didn't know anything about courts or evidence, I felt that it would be safer to have a written statement.
Here Lander fortunately secured the services of his old tried servant Pascoe, as well as Jowdie, and two natives of the Eboe country, who were likely to be of great service to the expedition, one of them being the son of a chief, and both intelligent, with a slight knowledge of the English language.
It was long after my first visit to Pascoe that he referred to those books. "Somebody told me," he said one evening, while offering me a share of his beer, "that you have been to the American tropics." I told him I could say I had been, but little more. I said it was a very big world. "Yes," he said, after a pause: "and what a world.
Raymond led them to the chancel and pointed out a new beam, on which he and Jacky Pascoe had been working a week past, and over which they had been cudgelling their brains how to get it lifted and fixed in place. "I can send to one of the miners and borrow a couple of ladders." "Ladders? Lord love ye, sir, and begging your pardon, we don't want ladders.
His father had talked strangely to himself his voice was thick, and uncertain his hand shook as he cut the bread. Mrs. Pascoe had come, in the middle of the meal, to give food to the old grandfather who displayed his usual trembling greed. She stood with arms akimbo, watching them as they sat at table and smiling, her coarse face flushed. "Pudding," said Mr. Westcott.
Fortunately they were now almost out of sight, and although the forts threw up rockets to light the bay, and joined their fire to that of the field guns, the boat escaped untouched. "Thank God we are out of that!" Mr. Hethcote said, as the fire ceased and the boats headed for a light hung up to direct then. "Have you many hurt, Mr. Pascoe?" "I'm afraid, sir, Mr.
Pascoe wouldn't anyway. You've got a past! in quod, I should think my past's all right. I've a jolly good mind to let you do your worst after all, I've got the will. And by george! now I come to think of it, you can do your worst! Tell what you like tomorrow morning. I shall tell 'em what you are a scoundrel."
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