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Not one of my captains has ever seen one of those submarines, neither on this side nor on that," and Medina touched the lines which Hillyard had drawn on both sides of the Balearics on his chart. "Now, what can I do?" "One simple thing, and well within your scruples as a neutral," replied Hillyard. "These submarines doubly break the laws of nations.
No one has sought to stop me, no one has spoken to me, not a soul apparently has taken the very slightest notice of me. This portion of Back Cup is extremely curious, and comparable to the most marvellous of the grottoes of Kentucky or the Balearics. I need hardly say that nowhere is the labor of man apparent.
They were getting through a certain small portion of the day, without doing any work, and without spending any money. The majority favoured the road past Valdemosa, over the Pass of Soller to Miramar and its rocky coast on the north-east side of the island, as indeed Hillyard knew the majority must. For there is no road like it for beauty in the Balearics, and few in all Spain.
Dark days were those for the honour of Europe, when the Moors inspired terror from the Balearics to the Scilly Isles, and when their rovers swept the seas with such effect that all the powers of Christendom were fain to pay them tribute.
Then he pointed ahead to what seemed to be no more than a low cloud-bank towards which they were rapidly skimming before that friendly wind. "Yonder," he said, "are the Balearics. We are making good speed." Although he said it without any object other than that of turning the conversation, yet the fact itself was sufficiently remarkable to be worth a comment.
Hillyard laughed. "Islands sixty miles from Valencia." "With a lighthouse," interrupted Graham. "And a little tumble-down inn with a vine for an awning." "Oh! I didn't know there was an inn," said Graham. "Already you have told me something." "I fished round the Columbretes all one summer," said Hillyard, with a laugh. Graham nodded two or three times quickly. "And the Balearics?"
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