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A party, consisting of two captains, two subalterns, and forty privates, with a proper number of non-commissioned officers from the garrison, with three days provisions, etc. are to be ready to march to-morrow morning at day-light, in order to bring in six of those natives who reside near the head of Botany Bay; or, if that should be found impracticable, to put that number to death.
The French are certainly misunderstood: but whether the fault is theirs, in not sufficiently explaining themselves; or speaking with that exact limitation and precision which one would expect on a point of such importance, and which, moreover, is so likely to be contested by us or whether the fault may not be altogether on our side, in not understanding their language always so critically as to know 'what they would be at' I shall not decide; but 'tis evident to me, when they affirm, 'That they who have seen Paris, have seen every thing, they must mean to speak of those who have seen it by day-light.
But I cannot tell; this same truth, is a naked, and open day-light, that doth not show the masks, and mummeries, and triumphs, of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Man has simply made a temporary loan from nature for which he pays no interest. Night and day are all one, for the magnetic light increases automatically as the day-light wanes; and the business parts of the city swarm as much at midnight as at high noon.
Our people who went to Nabah for water, found the well too late to return, and came back at day-light in the morning, about two and a half hours' distance from the line of route. 3rd. We held on our course northward, weary and exhausted, but the wind freshened from north-west, and we did not suffer from heat. We now entered into groups of small mountains.
I was for making the attempted escape at once, but both Perry and Ghak counseled waiting for some propitious accident which would insure us some small degree of success. I didn't see what accident could befall a whole community in a land of perpetual day-light where the inhabitants had no fixed habits of sleep.
By day-light, therefore, both the ship and schooner were four leagues from the land, and on the "great highway of nations;" a road, it may be said in passing, that was then greatly infested by foot-pads and other robbers. Just as the sun rose, we buried the dead.
When her master saw her, he said, 'Well, Bell, so you've run away from me. 'No, I did not run away; I walked away by day-light, and all because you had promised me a year of my time. His reply was, 'You must go back with me. Her decisive answer was, 'No, I won't go back with you. He said, 'Well, I shall take the child. This also was as stoutly negatived. Mr.
Young Sir John, a free and generous fellow, by far the best among them all, has collected about him those whom he thought friends, to celebrate his wished majority; they had now kept it up, night after night, hard upon a week; and, as well became such friends the gambler, the duellist, the man of pleasure, and the fool of Fashion they never yet had separated for their day-light beds, without a climax to their orgie, something like the present scene.
The camp was a scene of bustle and confusion long before day-light. The men whom I had selected to accompany me were in high spirits, and so eager to commence their labours that they had been unable to sleep, but busied themselves from the earliest dawn in packing up their various articles of clothing, &c.
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