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"He has, without doubt, been on board some ship, wrecked on the coast," said Wolston, "for I recollect having read that his kindred are only found in Western Africa and the adjacent islands; do you not recognize him, Willis, to belong to the Nelson, like the plank of the other day?" "No, sir." "So much the better." "We do not ship such cattle on board his Majesty's ships," added the Pilot.
This voyage had been undertaken in obedience to a sudden but overpowering impulse. It had come to him one night that he must know for himself how much truth there was in Da Souza's story. He could not live with the thought that a thunderbolt was ever in the skies, that at any moment his life might lie wrecked about him.
"If we had not plundered the galleon, she might have been wrecked and taken all she had down with her. Yet should such a consideration hinder a fair division as between us between you who had nothing to do with the pillage and me who risked my life in it?"
To the captain, who treated us very kindly, we said simply that we were a party of Englishmen whose yacht had been wrecked on a small island several hundreds of miles away, of which we knew neither the name, if it had one, nor the position.
Seeing this, Nehushta found yet more money, wherewith the man, blessing her, bought two oxen and a plough, and hired labour to help him gather what remained of his harvest. The shore where the infant was born upon the wrecked ship, was at a distance of about a league from Joppa and two days' journey from Jerusalem, whence the Dead Sea could be reached in another two days.
He knew that no woman could ever forgive the blunder he had made not a blunder of love but a blunder of self-will and an unmanly, unmannerly conceit. It had nearly wrecked her life: and he only realised it now, in the moment of clear-seeing which comes to every being once in a lifetime. Well, it was something to have seen the mistake at last. He had come to the sluice-gate.
She made Agatha what she was, and Agatha made Luke throw away the Croonah." "But the Court decided that it was an unusual current," said Eve, who had followed every word of the official inquiry. Fitz shrugged his shoulders. "He threw the ship away," he said. "Sailors like Luke do not get wrecked on the Burlings." Eve did not pursue the subject, for this was the shadow on her happiness.
And, as ever, I thought much upon the Maid that I did search for; yet strove to think quietly concerning her state; else should I have turned to running, and wrecked my body before that I had gone any great way. And that day, I passed seven large fire-holes, and two that were small; and always I came softly unto them; for there were oft living things about the warmth.
However, we consoled him by presenting him with our rusty axe, which we thought we could spare, having the excellent one which had been so providentially washed ashore to us the day we were wrecked. We also gave him a piece of wood with our names carved on it, and a piece of string to hang it round his neck as an ornament. In a few minutes more we were all assembled on the beach.
"Was there nothing ever heard," I asked Luis, "of the Pinta and Martin Pinzon?" "He is dead." "You saw the wreck?" "No, not that way, though true it is that he wrecked himself! I forget that you know nothing. We met the Pinta last January, not a day from here, with Monte Cristi there yet in sight.
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