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She was fitting out for a distant voyage and for days the work of bringing stores and munitions aboard had been in progress, so that there was an unwonted bustle about the little forge and the huddle of cottages that went to make up the fishing village, as if in earnest of the great traffic that in future days was to be seen about that spot.
Where have you been these many days? Why not keep me company a bit my husband is much away? And we have hardly spoke at all of dear father and of your voyage to the New Land. Why did you go away so suddenly? There is a spare chamber at my lodging. 'Come indoors, he said. 'We'll talk now talk a good deal.
But though I had heard of this plan being pursued, there was a degree of risk in it, after all, which I was far from fancying. Another plan was hit upon; still bolder; and hence more safe. What it was, in the right place will be seen. In selecting my craft for this good voyage, I would fain have traversed the deck, and eyed the boats like a cornet choosing his steed from out a goodly stud.
The sun was just going down as Rayel and I entered the cabin, where Hester was waiting for us. "The captain thinks we will reach Southampton before five in the morning," said she. I was glad to learn that our voyage was so near its end. After dinner Rayel and I went at once to our stateroom. "I am out of patience with myself," said he, as soon as we were seated.
Las Casas mentions that an English or French vessel bound from France or England to Spain was driven by contrary winds to these Islands, and on its return spread abroad in France an account of the voyage.
Both the seamen described the captain's conduct, both then and during the whole voyage, as outrageous, and I do not much doubt that it was so. They gave their evidence like men who wished to tell the truth, and were moved by no more than a natural indignation at the captain's wrong.
It has a number of twigs around the stem as a rule the beech-bole is clear of boughs, but some which are of rather stunted growth are fringed with them. The leaves on the longer boughs above fall off and voyage down the brook, but those on the lesser twigs beneath, and only a little way from the ground, remain on, and rustle, dry and brown, all through the winter.
See the lists of signatures in the State Department MSS., also Mason's Kaskaskia Parish Records and Law's Vincennes. Clark in his letters several times mentions the "gentry," in terms that imply their standing above the rest of the people. State Department MSS., No. 150, Vol. III., p. 89. "Journal of Jean Baptiste Perrault," 1783. "Voyage en Amérique" , General Victor Collot, Paris, 1804, p. 318.
On the evening of the second day's voyage, a sudden and violent thunder-storm occurred, not unusual in those latitudes; during the raging of which our mainmast was struck by lightning, and wholly disabled.
They warned their brethren not to embark on the enemy's ships in the dark, for that, while chaffering as to the price of the voyage, they would find that the false pilots had hoisted sail and borne them away in the night. In vain would they then seek to reach the shore again.
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