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However, Nilsen and his assistants accomplished their task with brilliant success. Among the hundreds of cases there was not one that was misplaced; not one that was stowed so that it could not instantly be brought into the light of day. While the provisioning was going on, the rest of the equipment was also being taken on board.
For the last time he superintended those details of fitting out and provisioning which were now so familiar to him; for the last time he walked in the streets of San Domingo and mingled with the direful activities of his colony; he looked his last upon the place where the vital scenes of his life had been set, for the last time weighed anchor, and took his last farewell of the seas and islands of his discovery.
The provisioning was done by a Florentine merchant named Juonato Beradi, who had an assistant named Amerigo Vespucci who, by a strange accident, was afterwards to give his name to the continent of the New World. While these preparations were going on the game of diplomacy was being played between the Courts of Spain and Portugal.
At the same time the colonial legislatures promptly approved and agreed to sustain the acts of the Continental Congress. Nor did they neglect to appoint committees of safety for calling out minute men and committees of supplies for arming and provisioning them.
In this matter we owe a deep debt of gratitude above all to Professor Sophus Torup, who has always been the supervising authority in the matter of provisioning, this time as well as on the former occasions. Great praise is also due to the factories that supplied our tinned goods. By their excellent and conscientious work they deserved well of the expedition.
Corporal Merritt took Rob's place as orator then, and announced that each boy would be assessed one dollar for the expenses of the camp, the remainder of the money necessary for the providing of tents and the provisioning of the camp having been donated by Rob's father, Mr. Wingate, of the yacht club, and the other representative citizens of Hampton who composed the local scout council.
No consideration whatever for these losses has been shewn by those whom I so zealously and faithfully served in their hour of need; not even by Peru, in behalf of which country nearly all these litigations arose, though the services of the squadron cost nothing to that country or Chili, beyond the expense to the latter of its original ineffective equipment, the provisioning and maintenance of the ships having been provided for at the cost of the enemy, even to the payment of the crews with their own prize-money, none of which was ever refunded!
In a moment the old man appeared to have quite satisfied himself about the matter, for he started off as fast as he could go: "I didn't tell you anything about the fort we built, nor the time we had provisioning it, did I?" said he. "No," answered William, "nothing about a fort."
Sufficient has been said in the first chapter to show so much. The Consular Government gave unlimited scope for the proper provisioning of the vessels, and yet we find officers and men in a wretched condition, the water insufficient, and the food supplies in utter decay, before the expedition reached Port Jackson.
In the midst of dismal rainy weather the business of refitting had to be pushed forward, previous to our going in dock; then coaling and painting in our ship separate work and provisioning, swallowed up the greater part of the month of January. February 11th. To-day the "Tyne" arrived from England.
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