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As the capital, Basseterre, was a town of more than ten thousand population, it might reasonably be expected that some news of the foundering of the Ramona would be received there. It was in that vicinity, as was evident from the rescue of the two sailors, that the ship had been torn by the wind and waves. A week was occupied in making the journey to St. Kitts from St.
"Don Miguel was also of a like opinion, and so was the little Englishman, Mr Johnson, whose snobbishness had by this time been completely put in the shade by his manly pluck and straightforwardness; while, as for Basseterre, the mate, and the French sailors, they implicitly believed all that Captain Alphonse approved of must infallibly be right!
"Jack," said Peter to me the afternoon we left Basseterre, "I've good news for you. The captain wants a lad in the place of Sam Dermot, whom he has left on board a homeward-bound ship, for he found that he was not fit for a sea-life, and Mr Gale has been speaking a word in your favour.
George Irwin, an intimate friend of the Hamiltons. The Irwin's house in Basseterre was on the north side of the Park, which was surrounded by other fine dwellings and several public buildings.
Christopher's, in the West Indies, captain Collingwood, commander of the king's ship the Crescent, attacked two French frigates, the Améthyste and Berkeley; the former of which escaped, after a warm engagement, in which the Crescent's rigging was so much damaged that she could not pursue; but the other was taken, and conveyed into the harbour of Basseterre.
The ascent from Basseterre to this pass was so very steep, and the way so broken and interrupted by rocks and gullies, that there was no prospect of attacking it with success, except at the first landing, when the inhabitants were under the dominion of a panic.
It took a stout seaman in those days to ply his calling in the Caribbean Gulf. Such a man was Captain John Scarrow, of the ship Morning Star, and yet he breathed a long sigh of relief when he heard the splash of the falling anchor and swung at his moorings within a hundred yards of the guns of the citadel of Basseterre. St.
"The French sailors, it seems, so Mr Johnson told me afterwards in a few hurried words of explanation, had `got into a fog' over the falls of the boat they had been sent to lower, and seeing the clumsy way they were setting to work at the job, both Basseterre and Captain Alphonse thoughtlessly left their post to show the men the proper way to do the task ordered.
"You should not come out at this hour and without a sunshade," he said, but keeping his face from her. "If you could stand it for hours out on those hot waters it will not hurt me for a moment or two here. Have you had any luncheon?" "I got a bite in Basseterre. Let us go in." As he raised himself she saw that his face was haggard, his eyes faded. He looked as if he had not slept for weeks.
It was a month later that Rachael, returning after a long ride with Hamilton, found her mother just descended from the family coach. "Is it possible that you have been to pay visits?" she asked, as she hastened to support the feeble old woman up the steps. "No, I have been to Basseterre with Archibald Hamn." "Not to St. Peter's, I hope." "Oh, my dear, I do not feel in the mood to jest.
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