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The advantage presented by this terrible blow is that the victim sinks instantly in a heap at the feet of his slayer, without uttering a moan. The wound left is a scarcely perceptible blue mark which rarely even bleeds. It was this mark I saw on the body of the Maire of Marseilles, and afterwards on one other in Paris besides poor Brisson.
It was the village which our two brigades of artillery occupied when the Armistice was signed, where the King came to see us, and M. le Maire, in his excitement, gave His Majesty that typically French, shall I say? clasp of intimacy and brotherliness, a left-handed handshake. "Curious thing happened on that rise," remarked Collinge when we were in open country again.
Le Maire advanced half of the funds, and Schouten, with the assistance of Peter Clementson, burgomaster of Horn, and other friends, advanced the remainder. It is probable that they might have heard from some English pilots who were in the service of the United Provinces, that Drake had discovered an open sea to the south of Terra del Fuego.
In 1615 they sailed from Holland with two ships: they coasted Patagonia, discovered the strait which bears the name of La Maire, and Staten Island, which joins it on the east. On the 31st of January next year, they doubled the southern point of America, having sailed almost into the sixtieth degree of south latitude; this point they named Cape Horn, after the town of which Schouten was a native.
But children played about the streets; girls stood and talked to French and British soldiers; and M. le Maire continued to function. The colonel, neat and unruffled, but pale with fatigue, stood waiting in the main thoroughfare as we came in. I informed him at once where I had left A Battery and what the brigade-major had mentioned.
'M. le Maire will soon see other teachers more wonderful than the Carmes déchaussés, said Lecamus. He went and took down the lantern from its nail, and opened the little door. When it opened, I was once more penetrated by the same icy breath; once, twice, thrice, I cannot tell how many times this crossed me, as if some one passed. I looked round upon the others I gave way a step.
We have proved ourselves cowards; but if you will pardon me, M. le Maire, you, too, re-entered precipitately you too! There are facts which may appal the bravest but I implore you to tell us what you have seen. 'I have seen nothing, I said. As I spoke, my natural calm composure returned, my heart resumed its usual tranquil beating.
The king when he heard it was mightily offended. He said he had not been told of her coming, and that this insult to her touched his honour. He sent at once for the Maire and syndics, and upbraided them bitterly for allowing such tumults to take place, and commanded them to put a stop to them under pain of his severe displeasure. "That accounts, you see, for the Maire's proclamation this morning.
"Tell that to a landsman," answered the Captain, "and not to a man who was with Jacob Le Maire the first time when them harricanes that dances the devil's hornpipe the whole year round Cape Horn ever had a chance to split an English jib. He was like a grampus when he set his teeth, and a southwester couldn't blow harder if he chose. But where away was I when I begun chase after old Jacob Le Maire?
"Why," he exclaimed, looking at the names, "you are not Frenchmen!" "No," Terence said quietly. "We do not pretend to be but, as you see, we are sailors who have done service on board a French privateer." "But where is this privateer?" "I don't know, Monsieur le Maire. We were not satisfied with our treatment, so we left her at Brest." "This is very serious," the Maire said. "You are Spaniards.
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