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eise with the devil own IN puoencs enn PlsnJ
tTtalI, mr. ifrd thous ht FOR day together,
COO d ore have pitched essily upon a custoner
o. plausible as COR friend Daniel, who hadn't =
spsIk 81 fear In him, krew, just owing TO bis
wait Of rep, ct for aught In the entire creation
How 1ked Lord Y. ederick, "a discovery,
did YOU fsy, Fir Dudl'y3"
'Oh, tOihng Of the kind pe shoah care
abtu', aitr ali, sAi1 the Admiral; "frsru wat
| could gather, twas only scientific, though tie
Amtrit an called II "a petty imp rtast fact
This Mr.. Estthewson Brown, | believe vas . mt
GU, b, the Stats G. vernment as botsnist in an
expedition TO tOuihward, and has leave from S.r
Hudson 10 uss his cppHtunity before tie next
Inc iaman 'als for examining part Of the ia
land; and today he thought he found the same
plants 10 s. Helms a. 10 did in Coughs Is
| iaud AID Tristan d'ACunhs, twelve hundred
| miles off, near the Cape showing a. 10 said,
| how once ON a tine there mnst have been land
| between them, perhaps "a f.r as Ascension. AS
| for Sir Hudson, he lad cluRh' 1t tie idea alto
gstt err, lut rather in view Of q histOricl work
| on the island, from the 'arlisst Tins till now
| and believe he means TO accompany the two
| bOtaUisis himself over towards Long wool toner
row, vh're We may very likely get sight Of
| them"
Mr.. roWland the FIST lou'cnan', and l. act
| out afly th' next day, with a coupl, OF t1o
| lTehe's mifshipmen, mounted on a. miny Of the
LITTLE Island ponies, to 90 up inland for cruise
about " c hills.
TITO two mids took it into their wise head,
| the btst thing was to 60 and climb Dian 5
| Peak, where they meant 10 Gu. their names az
| tho very top; on which the first Lieutenant, who
was a careful mi olc-agcd ran, thou ht need
| fl to 20 vita them, ! II they got into mtChie';
for my part pr lrrrtd the chance Il coming
across tie myIterious larkos and his comrade,
| ~ faucied not unlikely, or what was less to be
lo,k,d for, sight q l}onspatts hi psslr.
Arc ri rgly, w bad p,rtel COMPANY, sni ]
| was lOlh,tg siu, 10 handed round one 81 10 Of the
| Dcylls pUnch Bowl, when head a clat er Of
hor,e no e on ID, road, and saw tie Admir-
and Lord Fred, rick riding qui ky past on the
| OF ppitc Size, on heir way 10 Lon swOJd.
| Hut's Gate Wus right ahead Of me, not .
| quarter Of a mile OLA Ion S-sh, pod bungalow
Of a cottage. irsidc Of = wall. with gat- in L..
| where knew / nGednt try farther, uuiess |
waited tho santrics TO take mo On 'sr ar,s' II -
twixt n o and l., hos ever, in tue low grJun',
| wa a t4fiy Of uHn o. var 's.men uuGot charge
| of a miishipmar, carry ng some timber and
| hOJs -iani,up Ter LOnRwo'o As romemJsIoi,
I from SEEING them come ashore from he Polar
gus thai morning; stood over, 70 give my
| la'e shipmrtts a hail.
| But the moment 80; up with thcn,i struck
NO not Ii tie, As things s.Ooi 10 tinl Tires Of
| the four blacks we had taken aboard from that
Paid burnt bark OF he American ma 90, 'rud =
ing patiently enough undor the heaviest load, Of
the ga x.
Jsity-Jlaek, sAva, lo, king fellowa hey wee,
| a. stfur,. as hOrtts aud reminl.d NC more o.
our wild fGtnds in the Nourits River, than q
States niggcrs; still, what caught my nn'icc
"a st wasn't 40 much their icing there At all, as
the want o. tho fourth one, and where he mi5 hi
| -
ON hal suddenly took TO guessing a. Z
puzalirg closely again how shouli go TO work
my - II. if ! were the ttran 9 Fr,nchmsu saw
| Ia she bril- NJ sea, and wanted TO manage Ma
p,lyon'- escspe oUt Of 81. llclens And first
thoro WAS how to get into the island and put hin
| up to the scheme-why, sure enough, couldn'
have laid IL down better then hey seem 10 hay'
done all along; Whist could one do bat jus
| dsdge about that latitude under all sorts o
false rig then each hold Of somebody ht e GOV
or enc : landing. No Englishman UDu'i do il
and no foreigner hut would set Sir Hudson
Lowe on his guard in q moment. Next W
should have 10 get put on the island-and reall,
q neat CROUCH plan il was TO dog one Of tn
very cruisers Themselves, knock up mess Q
plaiks ard spars 10 the nighttime, set them al
Ablaze with tar, and pretend We wero fresh fro1
a craft on fire; when even Captain Wallis OF Il
Polar sus, as il happened, was too much Of
British seaman not 10 ca1y us faiRht TO ri
lIelsnal Agair, must say il wss touch be
yond me--lut 20 HIT the Governors notions Of
hobby, and go picking mr. plants Ground Ling
' wood, was a kelly eI ough way 20 get spsec
| Of the prisoi o., or at least l,t him see one wi
here.
IL W III = III | SCI about cIrrying him of :
the asst, thought Td,t wsstho prime IN ate
Seeing that eve If the schooner which "
NJ doubt yering cut { sisht-were TO m,l
bold dash FOR the land with The trado-wind,
a night elsN en- d ufs len there were sentr,
Close round L ngw cd e. m sunset, tho t .rligl
shining m, silly tlwsys in the want mCi
and 1t shy rate there was rock 6nd SUI
enoul h, 6etwixt hero snl the CO 8. % try Il
sure It lo5t al ard the llobe, lot ,lonc sn Ell
peror.
v it, ploAty ofwood' e r . c,vcr, one misl
steel up 70 % longwcod, but the buo : q
showeo y'u oil to be made mark o.. Whcy
! bit why weru Hose $ ms Blocks on III, isl,n'
= thoughts just strip the s,.rA.nakeI, and /
3 them lie IN the Devils Puncb-bowl, or sor
, | whore, hey nd mlit ~ hour, when | wsr
me they might slip up, gully ry gully, ~ u
very Sent los boks. Their col,r wouldu
show them, and sIvsges as they seeme,
couldn't they settle as m.ny sentries IS the
needed, c'esp into tho very eedch amber whe
Bgnsparte slept, and msnhsndle him bodll
sw down through some of the lie lrett b Ii Y
Def, re any ore was the WISER
! TIE point that still bothered me was, VII
l the fur h rf tho bl,cks ives vomiting at preset
unless he had his part to play elsewhere. II
wa chsDCo, thon tho iolole might DO noIi
,fmine, VIII CHI knew was ap. u have $ IN
tnGs.
II | could only make cut the fur
Back, so AS 10 t.ly with The scheme, ON VI
O.her hand, then III uSh il was all sure; b
| tf course this quite pulled me, and i ave
ppto work out my fancy case by proyiilr
sipntls betwixt us plUtters inside, and Il
scho nsr out Of sight from the teegrspSs.
y | There wa no use for her to run in AMI iaI
: the rick, without good luck having turned
II on the islandi yet any sign she could profit
e | must I've both sufficient to reach sixty niles
i, 30, and hidden enough not to alarm the tel
II graphs or the cruisers Hero was a worse pu
a zlc than MI, ard only guessed at il for my o,
| satisiacion-as q fellow can't help doing VIII
a he hears question lac can answer-,ill my e
a lighted on Diaras Peak near three thousa
1 feet above the saa.
There il was, by Jovc Twas quite clear
N the time; but by uightf,ll there was alwJ
Z more or lc's cloud near the top; AMI It you
Y, tire upon the very peak, 'twoui only he -
leagues 81: a notion that brought to mini u si
= liar Thing which | told YOU saved the In linn
}, | nom lee hOr' one night on the African ca.
u --and again, by George, saw hat must IA
- been meant AZ first by the Negroes as a smu
rs to help the French brig easier in. Putting II
4 | and that together, why it struck me Al OF
what the fourth Blacks crmnd might b.
.d | namely, to watch for the schooner and kim
his iJlal rs loon as lac coullu't see the i'll,
a | for mist.
Xt was sure Of il; and rs for dark nj ,ht co
ye ing on at sea, the lrcShcnng of the breeze thr
promised nothing more likely bright VIII
;" haze was soitenng out the horizon already, a
here ami there the egg ola cloud could be 81
:" to break OIL the sky to winlward, all Of viii
IN | ould he better known atloat than here.
he The truth was, was on the point at trippi
d, my anchor 10 hurry down and get aboard q,
II, | but suddenly the hc0d OF peak Tell below
IS | | had noticed in the distance, and seeing
an | doomed large on the stretch of water, | pre-
p soon found she must he a ship OF the line.