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But why do you talk of their being carried off by pirates? Is it not just as likely that the brig may have been wrecked?" "I wish that I could say so; for then we might hope to discover them on one of the thousand islands of that thickly-studded sea," was her answer.
But all these things are too long to dwell upon now; I must haste along my way. On the second morning after leaving Rat Portage we began to leave behind the thickly-studded islands and to get out into the open waters. A thunder-storm had swept the lake during the night, but the morning was calm, and the heavy sweeps were not able to make much way.
Doubtless its very merits, its "marvellous vocabulary, thickly-studded maxims, and excellent variety of images," which Erasmus admired long afterwards, sealed it to the vulgar. A man needed some Latin to appreciate it, and Erasmus' natural wonder "how a Dane at that day could have such a force of eloquence" is a measure of the rarity both of the gift and of a public that could appraise it.
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