News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-24

strength and collect provisions to on
able them once more to set coil fo,
sunny France. They soon found thai
there were no savages, that in fact they
We're the only souls in that insuIar soil
tude, and that neither wild beasts no,
poisonous reptiles were there to disturb
them.
Anne dArfet, with her maid and
Roger Machim, remained on shore with
part OF the crew; the rest of the crew
Kept on board to look after the shin.
Everything promised well, and all went
merry as a marriage bell 1t seemed
as If the lovers had found an ideal
maven for their retreat, such as the
poets sing of in their romantic dreams
Generally it is like that the year round
at Madeira. But the fates seemed
against poor Anne and her devoted
| lover, and the season seems to have
| been unusually inclement. On the
third day after anchoring at Machico
| their hopes were sadly dashed when
they saw another storm gathering and
heard the wind moaning among the
woods and rolling great rollers on the
shore.
When the men on board of the gal
ley saw the peril in which they were
they slipped the cable and ran out to
sea, hoping to come back with the re-
turn of fair weather; but they never
returned, nor was the galley ever heard
of again.
1t is easy to imagine the terror and
despair which came upon the fugitives
left on the solitary island when thew
saw their ship driven to sea. The Iadv
Immediately began to droop again. In
vain poor Roger attempted to cheer
her with hopes that the galley would
yet come back and take them home
again.
She saw too we'll in the wan face and
lusterless eyes of her lover that he had
no hope of leaving this island of exile.
And there she died with his name ON
her lips. Scarcely had they laid her
away in grave little removed from
the shore than poor Machim also Weld |
ed to his doom. His heart was broken. |
and in two days more the survivors
folded his hands on his breast and laid
him beside Anne d'Arfet.
After waiting long in vain for the |
galley to return the three or four sailors [
who were left on the island fitted up |
the small ships boat left with them and
started on the desperate undertaking
of finding way home, at least by fall
ing in the track of some ship. The
wind waited them to the coast of AT
rica. There they were picked up by a
Moorish cOrsair, which was cruising to
attack Christian ships The English
sailors on arriving at a port were
thrown into prison, where number of
other Christian captives We're already
lingering in chains
Among them were some Portuguese
mariners, who learned from the English
captives of the island which they had
discovered in SO unexpected n way
After years the Portuguese mari ners
we're ransomed and returned to Portu-
sal At Lisbon they met Zarco, a brave
navigator at that port To him they
elated the strange story learned from |
he English sailors. 1t was a period of
discovery, and the Portuguese We're
tmong the foremost in leading the
earch for new lands.
zarco at once fitted out ship and
ound the island of Roger Machim,
which he took possession of for the
King of Portugal and called the island
Madeira, because of its remarkable
verdure. A chapel was built over the
yrave of Anne d'Arfet and Roger
Machim, which still stands at Machico.
The discovery of the island of Madeira
las been of great use to the world, and
,hus we see again illustrated in its
history the great fact-that man pro
poses, but God disposes.- 6. W.
BENJAMIN in New York Independent.