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He was urgently in need of the very mounted troops with which he made no effort to put himself in touch. Bis peccare in bello non licet. Lord Roberts could forgive once, but Colvile was superseded for having twice shown a "want of military capacity and initiative."
It may be remembered that the sultan offered him land on the sea coast, on which to form a settlement, when it was subsequently discovered, that he was not in possession of an inch of territory within several hundred miles of the sea; the seaport of Raka was nearly similar to Sancho Panza's Island Barrataria, it was not to be found in any existing map, and it will be seen in the sequel, that the people resident on the sea coast knew as little of sultan Bello of Sockatoo, as he knew of them, although, according to his own report, the greater part of the sea coast belonged to him.
Mallam Dendo, chief of Zagoshi, was a cousin of Bello. He was a blind and very feeble old man in very bad health, who knew he had but a few years longer to reign, and his one thought was how best to secure the throne to his son.
Clapperton began to fear lest a bad construction might be put upon his visit to this mean prince, who, on the death of his father, Bello the First, had aspired to the throne, and even had himself proclaimed sultan in Sockatoo; from the mere circumstance of his brother Bello, the present sultan, having expressed the intention, during his father's lifetime, of resigning the splendour of royalty for the tranquillity of a holy and learned life.
And that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty to one. Cruel one! BELLO: Ask for that every ten minutes. Beg. Pray for it as you never prayed before. Both. Kiss. A cockhorse to Banbury cross. I'll ride him for the Eclipse stakes. Off we pop! I'll nurse you in proper fashion. You had enough. I asked before you. Me. Are you not finished with him yet, suckeress? BELLO: Well, I'm not. Wait. Here.
Salvatore was looking openly voracious now. "I can sleep on the floor." "No, signore. We have beds, we have two fine beds. Come in and see." With not a little pride he led Maurice into the cottage, and showed him the bed on which he had already slept. "That will be for the signore, Gaspare." "Si è molto bello." "Maddalena and I we will sleep in the outer room."
He also sent a ring of gold, with the warning "not to give himself the trouble of coming to Panama," for "he should not speed so well there" as he had sped at Porto Bello. "After these transactions" Captain Morgan loosed his top-sail, as a signal to unmoor. His ships were fully victualled for the voyage, and the loot was safely under hatches.
"I tell you that I have been roused to indignation by his Historia de Bello Veneris " "You surprise me: still " " Shocked by his Pornoboscodidascolo " "I can hardly believe it: even so, you must grant " " And horrified by his Liber de immortalitate Mentulae " "Well, conceding you that earlier work, sir, yet, at the same time " " And have been disgusted by his De modo coeundi "
There, after cruising about in those waters for about a fortnight without falling in with a vessel of any sort, at the end of that time they overhauled a caravel bound from Porto Bello to Cartagena, which vessel they took, and finding her loaded with nothing better than raw hides, scuttled and sank her, being then about twenty leagues from the main of Cartagena.
Morgan had appointed the Isle la Vache, or Cow Island, on the south side of Hispaniola, as the rendezvous for the privateers; and thither flocked great numbers, both English and French, for the name of Morgan was, by his exploit at Porto Bello, rendered famous in all the neighbouring islands. Here, too, arrived the "Oxford" in December.
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