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"Macandrew was all wrong about that fellow. In two days he was back. He had found an outpost, four miles above, but nobody was there, so we could get no help. He was going to land our cargo of a ton and a half of machinery, and place it on the company's territory above the falls. 'You can see for yourself, Purdy said to me pathetically, 'that I can't deliver the Cygnet there.
"'Twas before a walled city with the palm-trees hanging over; He was Captain of the Cygnet, and it sank before his eyes; The Englishmen ashore, they're taken in the pitfall, Good lack! they toil in galleys or their souls to God arise. "He sees them in his sleep, the craven and the traitor. The sea it keeps their bones, their bloody ghosts they pass "
Three days later they came to Teneriffe, and to their great rejoicing found there the Mere Honour and the Marigold. In his state-cabin, when he had given his Captains welcome, the Admiral sat at table with his wine before him and heard how had fared the Cygnet and the Marigold, then listened to Baldry's curt recital of the Star's ill destinies.
"Any men here of the Cygnet?" he demanded. His voice, raised in certainty above the casual murmuring of the repressed, made them all as self-conscious and furtive as though discovered in guilt. Hanson's head appeared above the crowd, as he rose from a bench and went to the official. "I'm the engineer of the Cygnet. We're waiting for Captain Purdy." The clerk complained. He pulled out his watch.
In the red light cast by her destroyer the galleon began to sink, and that so rapidly that her seamen threw themselves overboard. Yet burning, the Cygnet kept on her way. Borne by the tide she passed from the narrow to the wider waters; to-night a waning star, the morn might find her a blackened derelict, if indeed there was sign of her at all upon the surface of the sea.
To and fro plied small boats, while over the water to them in the wherry came a pleasant hum of preparation for the morrow's sailing. Upon the Cygnet, lying next to the Mere Honour, and a very noble ship, the mariners began to sing. "Shall we not row more closely?" cried Sedley. "The Cygnet knows not that it is you who pass!" Sir Mortimer laughed.
They must ha' found the magazine, for they fired the ship they fired the Cygnet, Sir John, and it bore down with the tide and struck the Phoenix." His voice falling, one caught and drew him aside to the chirurgeon's care. The Admiral turned to Ambrose Wynch, who burst forth with: "Sir John Nevil, as I have hope of heaven, I swear I did guard that man as you bade me do!
Sailing thence, the Cygnet touched at one of the Bashee Islands, and soon afterwards encountered another storm, which so disheartened the pirate crew that they wished themselves at home again. But Captain Reed and Captain Tait persuaded them to go towards Cape Comorin, intending to cruise in the Red Sea, where they expected to pick up some rich prizes.
Out of a cluster of mariners and landsmen rose Robin-a-dale's shrill cry: "She's going down, down, down! Oh, the white figurehead looks no more into the sea it turns its face to the sky! Down, down, the Star has gone down!" A silence fell upon the decks of the Cygnet and upon the overfreighted boats laboring towards her.
"I' faith, his berth upon the Cygnet liked him well enough, and though he thanked the Admiral, what reason for changing it? In fine, he should not budge, unless, indeed, Sir Mortimer Ferne " He turned himself squarely so as to face the Captain of the Cygnet.
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