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He said that at the moment there were no ships in the river, but that intelligence whether trustworthy or no, however, he could not state had reached him of the daily-expected arrival of three ships from Cuba.
Upon learning the full details of Richards' story, Captain Vernon had come to the conclusion that the brig which destroyed the Juliet was a vessel devoted to the combined pursuits of piracy and slave-trading; that she was, in all probability, one of the three vessels reported by the Fawn as daily-expected to arrive on the coast from Cuba; and that it was more than likely her destination was the Congo.
I had a similar experience one day as I was walking about the National Gallery with a young German lady whose acquaintance I had made. An Englishwoman stopped her in one of the rooms to ask: "Was it you who gave up a check parasol downstairs?" and receiving an answer in the affirmative, she burst out laughing in her face and went off. On July 16th came the great daily-expected news.
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