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Fearful was the weather we experienced sailing to the latter port fearful, I mean, to my boyish experience, though I must say that even an old salt was heard to pronounce it "a very stormy voyage." I met with an accident on board the 'Pilot. One night whilst at anchor I was ordered to row the dinghy ashore.
After having been trained at the camp, and cementing their friendship in many ways, the "five Brothers" as they called themselves, were sent across. In the second book of the series, "The Khaki Boys On the Way," we find our youthful heroes sailing for France after a series of adventures, one a startling one, at Camp Marvin.
One time, when we were so sitting together, I noticed an eagle rise from a ravine in St. John's Head, and we watched the bird sailing backward and forward on steady outstretched wing and finally disappear amid the shadows of the Red Glen.
The iron was evidently beginning to enter his soul. The free denizen of the boundless forest could no more live without liberty, than flame without air. He was like an eagle struck down from his home in the clouds, "Sailing with supreme dominion, Through the azure deep of air," to be chained upon a stump, and approached and gazed at by every wayfarer.
But they haven't forgotten you for a single solitary minute, and they miss you and wish you'd come back; and they send you their dear, dear love and I'll carry your dear, dear love back to them! So if you see a big, big, beautiful, strange fellow come sailing by your window some morning, why, that's mine, Mr. Flint! Remember!"
"So have I," said I; "or at least those which were said to be found on a tomb: they run thus in English: "'Here, after sailing far I Madoc lie, Of Owain Gwynedd lawful progeny: The verdant land had little charms for me; From earliest youth I loved the dark-blue sea." "Ah, sir," said the man, "I see you know all about the son of Owain Gwynedd.
Picture a mild, golden afternoon in early October, the yellowing green of Sailors' Field mellow and warm in the sunlight, the river winding its sluggish way through the broad level marshes like a ribbon of molten gold, and the few great fleecy bundles of white clouds sailing across the deep blue of the sky like froth upon some placid stream.
We were then afraid, and our diviners ordered us to abandon the island. Sailing quickly away thence, we passed by a country burning with fires and perfumes; and streams of fire supplied thence fell into the sea. The country was untraversable on account of the heat.
For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar: and behold! God hath graciously given thee all who are sailing with thee. Wherefore, sirs, cheer up: for I believe God that it will be so, exactly as he hath spoken to me. But we must be cast on a certain island.
The same night they rowed to Rio Francisco, where they took in the rest, with what treasure they had been able to carry with them through the woods; then sailing back with the utmost expedition, they returned to their frigate, and soon after to their ship, where Drake divided the gold and silver equally between the French and the English.
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