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Joe was about to retort when the men called for another song. "Come, Jamie Dove, let's have 'Rule, Britannia'." Dove was by this time quite yellow in the face, and felt more inclined to go to bed than to sing; but he braced himself up, resolved to struggle manfully against the demon that oppressed him. It was in vain!
-Ship Britannia, Sydney, Port-Jackson, -November 29, 1791. Messrs. Samuel Enderby and Sons, Gentlemen, I have the pleasure to inform you of our safe arrival in Port Jackson, in New South Wales, October 13, after a passage of fifty-five days from the Cape of Good Hope.
The passengers in this memorable expedition, unprecedented in the annals of the Travelers' Club, had visited Chili, the Pampas, the Argentine Republic, the Atlantic, the island of Tristan d'Acunha, the Indian Ocean, Amsterdam Island, Australia, New Zealand, Isle Tabor, and the Pacific. Their search had not been fruitless, for they were bringing back the survivors of the shipwrecked BRITANNIA.
British battleship Britannia torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off entrance to Straits of Gibraltar. Nov. 10 Former Kaiser Wilhelm and his eldest son, Frederick Wilhelm, flee to Holland to escape widespread revolution throughout Germany. King of Bavaria abdicates. Nov. 11 Armistice signed at 11 o'clock a. m., Paris time. Firing ceased on all fronts.
Rawdon and the young men went toward Ethel. Mrs. Rawdon made a very handsome appearance "an aristocratic Britannia in white liberty silk and old lace," whispered Ruth, and Ethel looked up quickly, to meet her merry eyes full of some unexplained triumph.
"Bring every sweetest flower, and let me strew The grave where Russell lies, whose tempered blood With calmest cheerfulness for thee resigned, Stained the sad annals of a giddy reign; Aiming at lawless power, though, meanly sunk In loose inglorious luxury." So sang of him the poet of the Seasons, Thomson, in his famous apostrophe to Britannia as the land of liberty.
Britannia with helmet heeling at dignity. The girl's eyes hung to the passing chariot, without movement of her head. It was Aminta who looked back, and she saw the girl looking away. Among the superior dames and damsels she had seen, there was not one to match that figure for stately air, gallant ease, and splendour of pose. Matthew Weyburn would have admired the girl.
What proud fellows the captain and officers must be to belong to that ship. I wonder whether the captain would like me as a midshipman? The crew I can fancy how they sit on the forecastle and sing `Rule Britannia, `Poor Tom Bowling, `One night it blew a hurricane. Happy chaps! I should like to belong to her. I think I'll go on board and ask the captain to take me.
It was evident that the degrees given related to the place where the BRITANNIA was actually shipwrecked and not the place of captivity, and that the bottle therefore had been thrown into the sea on the western coast of the continent.
The Britannia was alongside, and we were getting under way. A considerable body of men was walking around with the windlass or variously engaged on the forecastle-head. Of the crew proper were two watches of fifteen men each. In addition were sailmakers, boys, bosuns, and the carpenter. Nearly forty men were they, but such men! They were sad and lifeless. There was no vim, no go, no activity.
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