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'Inside there, under the Hohenhörn, said Davies, simply. 'Under the what? 'The Hohenhörn. 'Go on didn't they wait for you at Cuxhaven? 'I don't know; I didn't go that way. The commander looked more and more puzzled. 'Not by the ship canal, I mean. I changed my mind about it, because the next day the wind was easterly.
He was rescued, sir, and clapped into prison; escaped by turning traitor and entering the service of the Prince of Orange in what capacity I dare not say, but likely enough as a spy, or perhaps a kidnapper of soldiers. There are plenty of the trade along the frontiers just now. He has changed his name, but has been recognised by more than one Harwich man at The Hague, and again at Cuxhaven.
'Do ask the poor little daughter to come with her mother to the Towers; why, she must be seventeen or more; she would really be a companion to you, mamma, if her mother was unable to come, said Lady Cuxhaven. 'I was not ten when Clare married, and I'm nearly nine-and-twenty, added Lady Harriet.
She did not know who Clare might be, and she did not care much for food now; but she felt as if she could not walk without some help. At length she saw the pretty lady coming back, followed by a footman with a small tray. 'Look how kind Lady Cuxhaven is, said she who was called Clare.
They might be utilized to advantage in a smaller way, provided sufficient means were at hand to take care of one division a day. Especially suitable harbors on the North Sea are Emden, Wilhelmshaven and Bremerhaven, in connection with Bremen, and Cuxhaven with Hamburg and Glückstadt. These are the harbors that should have complete preparations made for possible expeditions.
No great damage was done on either side and the British airmen all escaped without injury, though four of them lost their machines. One, Flight Commander Hewlett, fell with his plane into the North Sea at a considerable distance from Cuxhaven and was picked up by a Dutch trawler, which landed him in Holland several days afterward.
I bin Jans Jansen, from Cuxhaven; what sall Ich bin? Glossin took from a case which was in the apartment a pair of small pocket pistols, which he loaded with ostentatious care. 'You may retire, said he to his clerk, 'and carry the people with you, Scrow; but wait in the lobby within call.
They say that they have left Hamburg, and I understand that the gun-brigs here are going on an expedition from this island, either to-morrow or next day, to storm the batteries of Cuxhaven, and so create a diversion, as they call it and very good diversion it is licking those French rascals.
The landing which the English effected at Cuxhaven while the Danes, who garrisoned that port, were occupied in pursuing the Duke of Brunswick, was attended by no result. After the escape of the Duke the Danes returned to their post which the English immediately evacuated.
Next morning the wind once more chopped round, and the weather cleared, and in four and twenty hours thereafter we were off the mouth of the Elbe, with three miles of white foaming shoals between us and the land at Cuxhaven, roaring and hissing, as if ready to swallow us up.
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