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l H Rob... Point direct sir—answer me. . , {g ' i ‘ ’ Alf. Viceroy, I know what you have done for me,~—-— ' ' Have chosen me'for your pilot and right well

I know your word is law. All this I know i

And strongly feel; but when the moment came

To carry out your orders, in my breast

Compassion and obediencelwent to-war,

.And I had thought—had hoped--——‘

Rob. Say on Sir, Well? 3 1 , Alf. Obedience triumphed.~ With what grace I might I ' I made her dOOm known to the Lady Mar—-

Rob. The prisoner— . Alf. The prisoners, they also had with them A horrible old witch or nursing Imother,-'—-

’Fore Gad, 'I’d rather face five ‘savages Than that old Spitfire; with her claws she flew At all around; and lo! mariners of France Fled like Neapolitans before her Charge, With much scratChed visages, e en I myself Had to be rescued by my port enSign ' p- - Else I had throttled been. At length she clung =" I ' To her loved lady, who stood pale and dumb, ' But trembling much; and then unto the boat .1 _ - We lowered them while the sailors at the Cars 6. _ , Were silent "in the presence of such grief, ’ But, when we left to come on board, there came. , I; I . 'Over the surge such wild burst of despair It'quite o ercame us; and I had to turn 'And vent some rounds of good sOund Gascoyne oaths A . _ As a wild diluent to soothe my feelings. .» , i - The place of landing was, as by this chart, ’ ' ' ' 1 An Island you will see on Cartier 3 plan A At thirty- -six leagues distant from the coast ; ‘ _ Across the mouth of the known estuary, ‘1 ' V Rob. So that ’tis done, tell me not were ’twas done. ' ' Alf. ‘ The wind had fallen, and our idle sails V , Lay pinned against the masts.

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