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How Fanshaw was on board the "Sea-King" when she was burned, off Point Linus, and how he hung in the chains till he was taken off, and his hair was repeatedly set on fire by the women emigrant-passengers jumping over his head into the sea. But not so near a-shaking hands with Death did any of them tell, as Ned Kennedy, who, poor fellow, lies buried in some lone cañon of the Sierra Madre.
"Osla, when I bear me bravely, 'Midst the lightning of the sword, And the armies meet like torrents When the mountain snows have thawed The thought of thine approving smile Shall be my sole reward. "Fare thee well, sweet blue-eyed Osla! The sea-king must not stay, E'en for tresses rich as summer And for smile as bright as May; But one hope I cannot part from We may meet again some day!"
"And it was!" said Abbot Martin. Then the good Abbot told them the history, part of which was already known to some of them. About five or six years before, Duke William had been hunting in the forest of Jumieges, when he had suddenly come on the ruins of the Abbey, which had been wasted thirty or forty years previously by the Sea-King, Hasting.
Perchance, if he had known this it would not have improved the state of his feelings; for Hake possessed no nobility of spirit. "It may be," continued Harald, "that thou shalt have another opportunity of measuring swords with this Sea-king.
'Polykrates is the first of the Grecians of whom we know who formed a design to make himself master of the sea, except Minos the Knossian. But the evidence for the existence of this early Sea-King and his power rests on surer grounds than the vague tradition recorded by the two great historians.
So all the fishes said: "The tai has been complaining of something sticking in his throat, and hurting him when he eats, so perhaps he has taken the hook." So they made the tai open his mouth, and looked in his throat, and there, sure enough, was the fish-hook. Then the hook was washed and given to Prince Fire-fade. The Sea-king also gave him two jewels.
"And pray, good sir," said Paul, "may I ask how it happens that we should find an Englishman in this almost unheard-of wilderness? To tell you the truth, my first impression on seeing you was that you were the ghost of an ancient sea-king."
The speculation had been a fortunate one both, for himself and for the kingdom. The terrible Sea-King was one of the great types of the sixteenth century. The self-helping private adventurer, in his little vessel the 'Golden Hind, one hundred tons burthen, had waged successful war against a mighty empire, and had shown England how to humble Philip.
At the end of October, 1578, Sir Francis Drake, the Sea-King of Devon, as he was called, and the most daring and persistent of the enemies of the Spanish settlements in America, sailed from Cape Horn, at the southern extremity of the continent, and steered northward into the great Pacific, with the golden realm of Peru for his goal.
The cheek continued inflamed and painful for some time, and there was a deep scar long after the pain had ceased, but Richard thought little of it after the first, and would have scorned to bear ill-will to Lothaire for the injury. Lothaire left off taunting Richard with his Norman accent, and calling him a young Sea-king.
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