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Besides, having lived for two years past in solitude, without observing the course of events, I was unconnected with the affairs of the world, and not informed of what passed, nor desirous of being acquainted with it. I lived four leagues from Paris as much separated from that. capital by my negligence as I should have been in the Island of Tinian by the sea.
Incredible were the hardships and misery they sustained from the shattered condition of the ships, and the scorbutic disorder, when they reached the plentiful island of Tinian, where they were supplied with the necessary refreshments.
When the Commodore came on board the Centurion on her return to Tinian as already mentioned, he resolved to stay no longer at the island than was absolutely necessary to complete our stock of water, a work which we immediately set ourselves about.
Man with a college degree returning from Spain, not disagreeable sort, talks Spanish with that fat man who's an Argentinian. Tinian? Tinish, perhaps. All the same. In other words Tin. Nobody at the table knows I speak English or am American. Hell, that's a good one on nobody. That's a pretty fat kind of a joke on nobody. Think I'm French.
However, as the weather was favourable, and our crew was now stronger than when we were first driven out, we in about five days' time returned again to an anchor at Tinian and relieved those we had left behind us from their second fears of being deserted by their ship.
When she had been left about four leagues astern, she blew up. The noise made by the explosion was slight, but a dense black pillar of smoke shot up to a considerable height in the air. Thus perished H.M.S. Gloucester. On the 26th the Ladrones were sighted, and the ship stood towards Tinian, prepared for an encounter should the Spaniards attempt to attack her.
It is of volcanic origin, and is in the form of a perfect sugar-loaf, 2,600 feet high, rising out of the sea, exactly as I had expected the Peak of Teneriffe to appear. I should like to have landed on the islands Agrigan or Tinian, so as to see the interesting remains left by the ancient inhabitants.
Besides, having lived for two years past in solitude, without observing the course of events, I was unconnected with the affairs of the world, and not informed of what passed, nor desirous of being acquainted with it. I lived four leagues from Paris as much separated from that. capital by my negligence as I should have been in the Island of Tinian by the sea.
War with Spain Original plan of expedition abandoned The Centurion and other ships ordered to form a squadron under Commodore Anson Miserable equipment Ships overladen Drop down Channel Cross Atlantic, and pass through the Straits of Le Maire Bad weather comes on Two of the ships nearly wrecked Severn and Pearl lost sight of Centurion in fearful danger Scurvy breaks out, and numbers die Anchors at Juan Fernandez The sick landed The Trial joins her Goats found marked by Alexander Selkirk The Gloucester comes off the island Long time in getting in The Anna Pink appears The Centurion goes in chase of a stranger Takes a prize Crew and stores of the Anna Pink transferred to Centurion The Trial takes a prize, and crew and stores being removed into the prize, she is destroyed Females taken on board a prize courteously treated Paita attacked and captured The seamen dress up in the Spaniards' clothes Booty taken The town burnt Spaniards acknowledge Anson's generous treatment of his female prisoners The squadron lays in wait for the Manilla galleon Negroes enter on board as seamen Miss the galleon Preparations for crossing the Pacific Prizes turned adrift The Gloucester abandoned Her crew taken on board Centurion Scurvy again breaks out Fearful mortality The Ladrones sighted Centurion brings up off Tinian Sick landed She is driven out to sea Great anxiety A vessel commenced The ship appears Reaches Macao Repaired Fresh men shipped Sails to watch for the galleon Her capture The Centurion on fire Anson's coolness Sails with his prize for Canton Roguery of the Chinese Anson and his men extinguish a fire at Canton Sails for England Hears of the war with France Narrow escape from a French fleet.
Happy, too, would it have been for Lord Anson, if he had known that there existed a group of islands, half way between America and Tinian, where all his wants could effectually have been supplied, and the different hardships to which he was exposed have been avoided.
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