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Updated: May 31, 2025
They did not converse much, for the strength of both Zeppa and Rosco had been so reduced that they could not even sit up long without exhaustion, but Orlando kept up their spirits by prattling away on every subject that came into his mind and especially of the island of Ratinga.
Cheer up, Rosco, you shall find a home and a welcome in Ratinga." "Always returning good for evil, Zeppa," said Rosco, in a more cheerful voice. "I think it is this tremendous weakness that crushes my spirits, but come I'll try to `cheer up, as you advise." "Dat's right massa!" cried Ebony, in an encouraging tone; "an' jus' look at the glipperin' steepil.
His intentions were hastened by the fact that a British man-of-war on the Vancouver station, hearing of his exploits, had resolved to search for him. And this cruiser did in fact come across his track and gave chase; but being a poor sailer, was left behind just before the pirate had reached Ratinga, where, as we have seen, she put in for water.
It need scarcely be said that the man-of-war did not overtake the pirate's canoe! She cruised about for some days in the hope of falling in with it. Then her course was altered, and she was steered once more for Ratinga.
Idols and temple!" repeated the two chiefs, in the Ratinga tongue, and in the same breath. "An' nebber gwine to fight no more?" asked Ebony, with a grin, that might be more correctly described as a split, from ear to ear. "Never more!" replied the chiefs.
Thus was an island won from heathenism in those far off southern seas! And now, what shall we say in conclusion? Time and space would fail us, were we to continue the history of Ratinga island down to the present time.
While the wretched youth was endeavouring to delude himself and gather crumbs of comfort from such thoughts as these, the awful cry from the ship's hold again rang out, and as his thoughts reverted to the bereaved father, and the fair, light-hearted little mother on Ratinga Island, the deadly pallor that overspread his countenance was intensified.
Thus was the ice of conservatism broken in the island of Ratinga, and liberal views prevailed thenceforward in the matter of costume whether to the advancement of taste and decency remains to this day an open question, as all liberal and conservative questions will probably remain till the crack of doom.
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