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Updated: May 20, 2025
He sat up on deck, and looked on the scene around, as the little vessel, having borne down the Solway Firth, was beginning, with a favourable northerly breeze, to bear away to the southward, crossing the entrance of the Wampool river, and preparing to double the most northerly point of Cumberland.
'We'll stand out to sea, and then run in again with the evening tide, and make Skinburness; or, if there's not light, we can run into the Wampool river, and put you ashore about Kirkbride or Leaths, with the long-boat. Fairford, unwell before, felt this destination condemned him to an agony of many hours, which his disordered stomach and aching head were ill able to endure.
'I wish they were at the bottom of Wampool river, with them they belong to, said Nanty Ewart. 'But they are part of cargo; and what to do with the poor young fellow 'Why, many a better fellow has roughed it on the grass with a cloak o'er him, said Crackenthorp. 'If he hath a fever, nothing is so cooling as the night air.
In spite of his exertions, when he awoke, after five or six hours' slumber, he found that he was so much disabled by dizziness in his head and pains in his limbs, that he could not raise himself without assistance. He heard with some pleasure that they were now running right for the Wampool river, and that he would be put on shore in a very short time.
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