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Updated: May 4, 2025
When the sea was smooth they started; but they had hardly gone four leagues from the land, when the waves began to rise under a contrary wind. Immediately they turned for shore, the canoes were overfreighted, and as the sea rose, frequently shipped water. The frightened Spaniards threw overboard everything they could spare, retaining their arms only, and a part of their provisions.
In the gay, chattering multitude among whom she moved, her own steadfast quietness stood out in bold relief, and it answered to certain traits of his own Puritanism. It was not that she was dull, or overfreighted with conscience. She frisked with the others of her kind; but her friskiness was intermittent and never frivolous.
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.
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