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We lost our brave general the old Earl of Lindsey, who was wounded and taken prisoner, and died of his wounds; Sir Edward Stradling, Colonel Lundsford, prisoners; and Sir Edward Verney and a great many gentlemen of quality slain.
Catherine acquaints him with the situation of her little business affairs; her fortune is improving; she gives him an estimate of it in round numbers, as well as of the suitors she has rejected; but she does not mention Captain Stradling, whose arrival she yet fears every moment.
The next day towards nightfall, Catherine, seated in her bar, in the large leathern arm-chair which served as her throne, with dreamy and downcast brow, and chin resting on her hand, was still thinking of Captain Stradling, but her ideas had assumed a different aspect from those of the evening before.
Among the European nations, those who had had no part in the conquest now sought to share the spoils. Stradling availed himself of both these pretences; when he touched at the coasts of Guinea and Congo, it was to obtain negroes whom he expected to sell in America.
It was preserved by the family for more than a century, and given by Miss Mary Sparke, the great-granddaughter of the above William Sparke, in 1822 to a Mr. Stradling, who placed it in the museum. The spy-glass, which is of very primitive construction, is in four sections or tubes of bone covered with parchment. Relics of war and fighting are often stored in country houses.
He found her already enthroned in her leathern arm-chair, her hair neatly braided, with two small curls on her temples; in a toilette which the early hour of the morning did not seem to authorize; but it was the famous third day, and she was awaiting Stradling. On seeing Selkirk enter, she exclaimed to the boy, pointing to the newly-arrived: 'A pot of ale!
To-day he is no longer the prisoner of Stradling, he is the prisoner of God! and this thought reassures him. A sailor, he has never loved but the sea; well! the sea surrounds him, guards him! He has then only thanks to render to God.
Well, do not content yourself with setting me on shore; place me in the hands of the chief men of the settlement. Will that suit you? Stradling winked significantly; but this was all. 'Ah! resumed the young man with increasing emotion, 'do not think to detain me longer on board, to crush me beneath this humiliation!
I was put aboard of this prize on behalf of Captain Dampier and his company, and the master of the Cinque-ports, in behalf of Captain Stradling and his crew. We carried our prize into the Bay of Panama, and anchored under the island of Tobago on the 14th of May.
Raising his head and folding his arms: 'Captain, pursued Selkirk with vehemence, 'some day or other we shall return to England, where the laws protect all; there, I shall have the right of complaint, and Queen Anne loves to render justice; beware! Stradling, still spying, began to whistle God save the Queen; then he called his monkey and made it gambol before him.
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