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But the long-drawn, monotonous, nasal cry of the charcoal-vender who has not heard it? "Cha-r-coa'! Cha-r-coa'!" is more cheerful than the demoniac laughter of the desperate galley-slaves, and his bell sounds musically when we hear it and think of theirs.
When an action occurred, they were particularly exposed to danger, for the rowers and their oars were the first to be shot at just as the boiler or screw of a war-steamer would be shot at now in order to disable the ship. The galley-slaves thus suffered much more from the enemy's shot than the other armed men of the ship.
Even supposing the object of such an education reasonable, how can we without indignation see the unfortunate creatures bowed under an insupportable yoke, doomed to constant labor like so many galley-slaves, without any certainty that all this toil will ever be of use to them! The years that ought to be bright and cheerful are passed in tears amid punishments, threats, and slavery.
It may be imagined, as the hapless prisoners afterwards poured in not only from the peninsula, but from more distant regions, whither they had been sent by their cruel taskmasters, some to relate their sufferings in the horrible dungeons of Spain, where they had long been expiating the crime of defending their fatherland, others to relate their experiences as chained galley-slaves in the naval service of their bitterest enemies, many with shorn heads and long beards like Turks, many with crippled limbs, worn out with chains and blows, and the squalor of disease and filth that the hatred for Spain and Rome did not glow any less fiercely within the republic, nor the hereditary love for the Nassaus, to whose generosity these poor victims were indebted for their deliverance, become fainter, in consequence of these revelations.
"Why, man, I have scarce had my tongue unchained to-day; and to talk with that northern twang, and besides, the fatigue of being obliged to speak every word in character, Gad, it's like walking as the galley-slaves do on the Continent, with a twenty-four pound shot chained to their legs they may drag it along, but they cannot move with comfort.
Such was the machinery which Philip had at last set afloat, for the purpose of dethroning Elizabeth and establishing the inquisition in England. One hundred and forty ships, eleven thousand Spanish veterans, as many more recruits, partly Spanish, partly Portuguese, 2000 grandees, as many galley-slaves, and three hundred barefooted friars and inquisitors. The plan was simple.
Even if I considered that education wise in its aims, how could I view without indignation those poor wretches subjected to an intolerable slavery and condemned like galley-slaves to endless toil, with no certainty that they will gain anything by it? The age of harmless mirth is spent in tears, punishments, threats, and slavery.
It was eight o'clock in the evening before all was ready, and they were still occupied with the last defence, under the superintendence of Mesty, who showed himself an able engineer, when they heard the sound of an approaching multitude. They looked out of one of the windows and perceived the house surrounded by the galley-slaves, in number, apparently, about a hundred.
"Viva los Inglesos," cried the galley-slaves, as Easy climbed up over the quarter of the vessel. "I say, Ned, did you ever see such a precious set of villains?" observed Easy, as he surveyed the faces of the men who were chained. "No," replied Gascoigne; "and I think if the captain had seen them as we have, that he would have left them where they were."
The sea-breeze blew her hair into her face. Perhaps on the ocean whence it came the high waves would, in a few hours, be tossing the ship on which her father and brother, seated at the oar, would be toiling as disgraced galley-slaves. That must not, could not be! Hark! what was that? She heard a light whisper. In spite of strict orders, a loving couple were passing below.
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