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The captain was steering; Chard sat on the after-thwart, facing him. "I tell you that I don't care much what we do, Louis," said the supercargo, with a reckless laugh, as he looked into the captain's sullen face. "We've made a damned mess of it, and I don't see how we are to get out of it by going to Ponapé."
Sam Chard used very foul language to Mr. Carr, who again lost his temper and called the former a damned stock-fish eating Dutchman, who had no right to sail under British colours as an Englishman, and ought to be kicked off the deck of a British ship. Mr. Chard then advanced towards Mr.
The second quarter boat, in which Hendry and Chard had been placed, then came alongside, and the two surviving firemen, now thoroughly cowed and trembling, and terrified into a mechanical sobriety, were brought to the gangway and told to jump. "Jump, you rotten beggars, jump," said Morrison; "over you go into the water if you want to save your useless lives. The men in the boat will pick you up.
Hendry's face paled, and even Chard, self-possessed as he always was, caught his breath. "We fired on those men to suppress a mutiny " began Hendry, when Oliver stopped him with an oath. "What are your orders, I ask you for the second time?" and from the natives there came a hissing sound, expressive of their hatred. Chard muttered under his breath, "Be careful, Louis, be careful."
Whitestaunton, a village 3-1/2 m. N.W. from Chard. As the only approach is by a rough country lane, the place is somewhat inaccessible, but it possesses much antiquarian interest. Two of the bells are mediaeval. In the churchyard is the base and shaft of a cross.
I remember next that I saw the whole of Albemarle's troops flying for their lives along the Chard road, flinging away their weapons as they ran. They had the start of us; but a resolute captain could have brought them to a stand, by pushing forward his cavalry. However "a bridge of gold to a flying foe" is a good saying. We let them go. I went forward with the horse on that occasion.
They sprang forward together, lifted the unconscious men one by one, and threw them over the side. "Run up the jib," said Hendry hoarsely; "let us get further away." "You rotten-hearted Dutch cur," and Chard seized the captain by the beard with his left hand and clenched his right threateningly, "brace yourself up, or I'll ring your neck like a fowl's, and send you overboard after them.
But for the present they said nothing, but ate their biscuit and tinned beef in cheerful silence, after waiting for Tessa and Maoni to begin. Huka, their recognised leader, and Malua, Harvey's servant, had both assured them that the captain and Chard would be brought to punishment, but this assurance was not satisfactory to the majority of them.
This was the gibbet upon which twelve natives of Chard, followers of Monmouth, paid the penalty for their rebellion. The excursion par excellence is to Ford Abbey, situated about four miles away on the banks of the Axe.
I had sunk a considerable sum in endeavouring to keep a flock of sheep, for which the farm was by no means congenial; added to this, my flock became infected with the foot rot, having been contaminated by the few half Southdown half Merinos which I had purchased of Mr. Dean, of Chard, of which unfortunate deal I have before spoken.
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