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They specially questioned all witnesses on this point. Yet not one of their witnesses would swear to having seen Henderson at Falkland. This disposes of the theory of wholesale perjury. The modern apologist for the Ruthvens, Mr. We believe that Henderson perjured himself when he asserted, on oath, that the Master sent him back to Perth with the intelligence of the King’s coming.’
That's easy enough," said Wilton, who had never found any difficulty in being left behind, or in being condemned to the brig. "We must make a sure thing of it next time; but it won't do to run away with a boat again. Hush up! There comes that old stick-in-the-mud from the Josephine," added Perth, lowering his voice to a whisper. The gentleman thus discourteously alluded to was Mr.
There follow arguments, to be later considered, about the relations between James and the Earl previous to the tragedy, and a statement, with no authority cited, that James had written to Gowrie’s uncle, to meet him at Perth on August 5, implying that James had made up his mind to be there, and did not go on Ruthven’s sudden invitation.
"In which direction did the car proceed?" "Toward Victoria Station." "Any other particulars?" "Not regarding the car, its driver, or its occupants; but early on the following morning, Mr. Vernon, very much shaken, called upon me and instructed me to despatch an agent to Perth immediately. My agent's report reached me at practically the same time as the news of my client's death"...
"Did I not pray you," said Niel Booshalloch, "to say nothing on that subject?" "It is the mail shirts I speak of," said Simon "may I ask if any of them were made by our celebrated Perth armourer, called Henry of the Wynd?" "Thou art more unlucky than before," said Niel, "that man's name is to Eachin's temper like a whirlwind upon the lake; yet no man knows for what cause."
At Perth, in Western Australia, distant 1,092 miles, sounds as of guns firing at sea were heard; and at the Victorian Plains, distant about 1,700 miles, similar sounds were heard. In South Australia, at Alice's Springs, Undoolga, and other places at distances of over 2,000 miles, the sounds of the eruption were also heard.
The Lord Perth and his brother, the Lord Melford, and a black catalogue of others, whose names, for the fame of Scotland, I would fain expunge with the waters of oblivion, considering Religion as a thing of royal regulation, professed themselves papists, and got, as the price of their apostacy and perdition, certain places of profit in the government.
"What does that mean?" asked Perth, when the barge was hoisted up, as he ran up to Wilton. "What?" "Why, there is Captain Kendall on the quarter-deck of the ship, and the Josephine is getting under way without him." "There's been a row somewhere; Kendall is one of the flunkies, but he's a good fellow for all that," added Wilton, who could not help giving Paul this tribute.
Unfortunately, during this time my stomach, though craving for animal food, would not accept the oatmeal, or chief portion of my diet, and accordingly I was in the practice of dividing it amongst my fellow prisoners. Perth, where the diet is more liberal, was not then opened for convicts.
It will probably be a month from this date. Trusting that the foregoing brief account of my proceedings, as leader of the expedition entrusted to my guidance, may meet with the approval of his Excellency the Governor, I have, etc., Leader of Expedition to Eucla and Adelaide. The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Perth, W.A.
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