cell, found him stretched along lifeless on the ground, covered with gore. With a concealed and poisoned dagger he had committed this horrid deed. Jacques was immediately executed, and his body, together with Ferdillan's thrown into a hole in a cross road, without Christian burial; their associates being less guilty, were banished for life. The Earl again took possession of his castle, to which was annexed, by the King's command, Ferdillan's estate and title to be assumed by the Earl of Northumberland and his heir for ever.

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next day, the King returned to London, and ratified his promise to the Earl concerning Ferdillan's estate. The old Earl lived to a good age, honoured and admired by all around, while the name of Ferdillan was never mentioned but with detestation and contempt. The Earl erected a small stone across the spot in which the wretched couple were interred, merely mentioning their names, with this solemn motto:-"He who sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."

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WHY, Bob! well, I declare so is! Why, Bob, you young son of a sea-coot, where have you been 'knocking to windward for these two or three years past?" exclaimed old Jack Rattlin, as he started up with surprise and pleasure, though he had been disturbed while composing himself for his afternoon's nap in his little cabin. "Lord love the boy, how he's grown! Why, you warn't higher than the windlass end when you went away, And where have you been to, and how's sister Poll, and all the rest on 'em? Come, bring your starn to an anchor. Why I'm right heartily and sincerely glad to see you; but who'd ha' thought it! Lord love the boy! he's just like his poor father, my son Jack that's dead and gone, and left his old dad a shattered old hulk behind, only fit to be broke up (he dashed a tear from his eye.) But it's of no use overhauling that consarn now; so bring up, I say, and tell us all about it." This was uttered with his usual volubility to a fine young sailor, who grasped the veteran's hand, and showed in the outlines of his face a striking resemblance to the hoary Tar. 'Twas youth and age contrasted, and yet both so mild, that the heart scarcely could tell which claimed the preference. "Come, tell us all about it, (repeated old Jack;) and where have you been to?"- I've been to the

South Seas in a whaler,' replied Bob. "Whaler, eh? Ah, I used to love that sport when I was a boy, and many a harpoon I've handled. And what sort of a voyage have you made?”— A proper whaler's, plenty of hard work, and but little money." Aye, aye, share 'em out, share 'em out—I understand it; but where did you touch at?" We touched at the Sandwich Islands.'-"Did you? then mayhap you've seen the King and Queen.”—

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seen 'em? ah to be sure I have. Why to go for to ax such a thing as that now, when we brought 'em home in our ship!" Well,who'd ha’thought it? I can remember it as if it was but yesterday, for old age arn't blotted out every mark in the log-book of memory. I can remember it as if it was but yesterday, when I was out there along with Vancouver, and that's thirty years ago. There was King Tommy-Yammer and Queen--but I forgets their hard names now. There was one Davis, too, a white man, and another of the name of Young, that was taken prisoners by the savages, and lived upon the island; but I suppose they're all defunkt now."-No, Young is living still, and has got a large family. One of his sons came with us, as interpreter, as far as Rio Janeiro; but he fell out with the skipper, and so they left him behind. Old Young lives out

there like a pastry-cook-no, no, patriarch I mean. He has a snug little hut, a delightful situation in a valley, and several fine daughters." Daughters, eh? Why, you young rascal, how dare you look at the girls? There, none of your grinning why, I've a great mind to lay my leg about your back, (taking it from the table and flourishing it.) And so the old boy 's alive, eh?" Yes; and more respected than any one beside, not bating the King himself. He is universally esteemed over all the islands, and every one reverences him.'" And did you see the place where poor Cook was killed at Owhyhee, and Mr. Hergest was murdered at Woehoo?" I saw the spot where Captain Cook lost his life; but there is only one man now in existence that was engaged in it, and he's desperate old.'" Well, well, 'twas a sad job; but come, give us the whole yarn from beginning to end, and I won't interrupt you again. Come, bear a hand. Lord love the boy! why he's the very spit of his father. There, there, begin, I say, and I'll be as mum as a stockfish. Avast though, wash the cobwebs out of your throat first; I always keeps a round of grape and cannister, (pour ing out a glass of rum.) Ah, that bottle was my old grandmother's. There, toss it off, and don't make so many wry faces: why you won't begin to-day. Always rince your bucket, Bob, when you've done with it, and swab it dry, (said the old veteran, swallowing down what remained in the glass ;) and now spin away." Why, d'ye see, we sailed from England, January 5, 1822, in the L'Aigle, and after a fine passage of four months we arrived at Paita, on the coast of Peru, without any thing very material, except an accident off Cape Horn, which I'll tell you. D'ye see we had two lads on board belonging to the Sandwich Islands which had come home in the ship the voyage before. They were fine young men, full of life and spirit, and used to keep us all alive by their comical descriptions of what they had seen in England. Well, one day we were running before the wind with a stiff breeze, at the rate of eight knots, when the jib-boom 59 ATHENEUM VOL. 1. 2d series.

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knocked one of them overboard. hands saw it, and stood petrified, except Mat Cleland, a mulatto, and he jumped under the main channels, and clinging with one leg round the chain-plate, threw the rest of his body into the wa ter, and as the lad came astern, he grabbed hold of him by the collar and brought him safe on board. Well, we anchored at Paita, the same place that Commodore Anson took it was afterward rebuilt, but now lies in ruins, having been almost entirely destroyed by the Patriots under Lord Cochrane. We staid here about ten days to get stock, but there was very little to be procured, so we stood away for the Gallapagos Islands to catch Turpin. We sailed in the afternoon, and next morning we fell in with a pod of fortybarrell'd bull-whales.'—"Did you, my boy? (said old Jack, taking his limb off the table, and poising it like a harpoon)-and did you get fast?"-Avast, and I'll tell you. The boats were lowered down. The Chief Mate got fast first, but his line parted; the Second Mate then pull'd up, and fixed his harpoons. The Captain directed the Chief Mate to proceed after another fish, but he preferr'd attacking the first again, and darted in another iron. The eagerness of the two Officers to see which should have the glory of killing the whale, induced them to haul up alongside to shove the lance under his fin for that purpose. fish feeling the attack, settled down under the water, and shortly afterward he was observed rising again with his jaws open, right under the Second Mate's boat, who immediately struck the lance into his head to shove the boat off; but before he could fully accomplish his purpose, the lower jaw of the fish caught the off side of the boat, and turned it over, otherwise he would have snapp'd us in two. Well, we all had a swim for it; and just as I was going to catch hold of the gunwale of Chief Mate's boat, the fish made a start, and run her half a mile away from me. The next thing that I saw was this very boat flying aloft in the air, and the men in all directions. She

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was literally cut in two by a blow from the tail of the fish, and the crew were swimming about. On the fore part of her remains was the cooper, and a coloured boy on the aft part, neither of whom could swim. As soon as the whale had done all the mischief, it ranged a-head and lay still, and the fourth Mate's boat came to pick us up. However, while he was getting us in, the fish recovered, and came rolling down to the remnant of the wreck where the poor cooper was, and before we could take him off, the whale had carried him down, and we saw him no more. We were now seventeen men in one boat, and did not dare to move for half an hour, for we could plainly distinguish the monstert under us, laying on his side and looking up. Sometimes he would rise to spout at a little distance, and then resume his station. At last he went off in the wind's eye, spouting blood. In the meantime the Captain had killed one fish about five miles to leeward, without any difficulty. After this we pursued our route to the Gallapagos, and arrived in about a week; and all hands set off for the mountains to catch turpin among the bushes. These islands are uninhabited, and we landed at Charles' Island. The method of bringing the turpin down is by means of a belt strapp'd over the shoulders, one behind and one before, with a raft of little ones slung by ropeyarns over the arm. In the course of nine or ten days we had collected 640, the heaviest weighing about eight hundred weight, down to the size of a dollar. At Albermarle Island, on the south end, there is one of these gentry that enjoys an undisturbed possession of an extensive and fertile plain, on account of his immense size preventing any possibility of moving him. His extreme height is eight feet, and the circumference on the flat of the back upwards of twenty. He is an old acquaintance to all the South Sea men. A few days after our arrival some of the people made a fire up in the bush, (about seven miles from the spring, and nine or ten from the shore,) to cook themselves some chocolate and

+ These fish were from fifty to sixty feet in length and they grow to about one hundred.

turpin; and this not being properly extinguished, it caught the dry grass, (which stood about three foot high,) and run up Blue Morris mountain, and continued burning for two days, so that afterward we had turpin ready cooked; indeed the men hardly escaped. From there we went to the coast of Mexico, and encountered a severe hurricane, in which we lost our boats, and was very near capsized altogether. After taking some fish we proceeded to the Sandwich Islands, and supplied ourselves with boats; and then for eight months went a fishing, and was very successful, filling about two thousand barrels of oil.

We returned again to the Sandwich Islands, and anchored at Woehoo ; from thence we went to Mowee to receive the King, and took him, with five or six of his queens and a great many chiefs, to Woehoo, when it was finally settled that they should come to England, though the Americans endeavoured to persuade them from it. The parting with the inhabitants at Mowee was very affecting, but particularly so at Woe-hoo. The King was not altended with much state; but no monarch is more absolute, and this proceeds from the love and reverence of the natives. His earnest wish was to leave Young in charge of the government, but he excused himself on account of his great age (84); and therefore it devolved on Billy Pitt, the brother of Boguey* that's come to England: but still the King would not leave the place till Young had sanctioned his wish. At his departure the natives gathered round him, and tore their hair, and shriek'd and yell'd with the most frantic gestures. The King was dressed in European fashion, and when the boat shoved off from the shore, be stood up without betraying the slightest emotion; while the natives swam round and clung to various parts, crying and yelling with the greatest bitterness. On coming aboard, the decks were crowded with queens and chiefs, pigs and poultry. Of pigs there were about 300; goats, 36; sheep, 6; and bullocks, 4; with 8 dozen of fowls, and 4 dozen of ducks,-all adrift to gether; and potatoes and powey from

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their chief amusement, and some of them played a good game. On arriving at Rio Janeiro we fired a salute, which was returned by the forts and the Brazilian fleet, and the English Admiral promised to send his barge to convey them ashore; but after waiting two days, they landed from one of the country boats, and took up their lodgings at a private house in a retired part of the town. The Emperor was at his country-house, but directly returned, he granted them an interview, and the two monarchs met together. The Emperor behaved with considerable kindness and affability, and presented the King with a handsome diamond-hilted sword in a gold sheath; and the Empress gave the Queen a pair of diamond ear-rings, for which they received in return a very beautiful feather dress. They visited the British Admiral on board the Spartiate, and were much delighted with their entertainment. When they returned, the King described the two decks as one ship a-top of t'other. Lord Cochrane paid them great attention while on shore, as indeed did every body else. They frequently came on board of us to get a mess of raw fish and entrails, as the Captain would not suffer them to eat such garbage before the Portuguese. One day the Captain landed with some ladies, and saw Governor Boguey swimming about near the landing-place, to the great diversion of hundreds of spectators. The moment the Governor cotch'd sight of the skipper, he hastened out of the water, and in a state of noddity just as he was, came up to the party and began to converse. The ladies look'd so comical, and the Captain rebuk'd him for his indelicacy; but he appeared scarcely to know what shame was. On being scolded, and asked whether he was not aware of the impropriety? He replied, "No; they look me-me see themthat very good." Well, I carn't tell you half now; howsomever we left Rio Janeiro with the same ceremony of salutes, and soon after one of our boys died. This seemed to affect them very much, and they were particularly attentive during the reading of the burial service. Just before we got into soundings, one of the Chiefs departed this

stem to stern. Well, we got under weigh, and then Comomorro, the favourite Queen, came alongside in a double canoe paddled by 150 men, and attended by the Princess of Atooi, a most immense woman, as big as a tun butt. The Queen joined her lamenta tions with the rest; and what with the grunting of the pigs and the howling of the natives, we were almost stunned. The King preserved his composure till the Chiefs and other Queens took their leave, and then his grief overpowered him. We fired a salute in return for those received from the forts and shipping, and the natives in the canoes gave us three cheers, and thus we quitted the Sandwich Islands. The King, Queen, Governor Boguey and his wife; the Pilot, and two other Chiefs; the King's Steward and two servants, with two interpreters, made up the groupe. Among other things brought on board was some salted dog's flesh, a favourite dish with them. Sometimes they were sea-sick, and then the fowls went to wreck, for they generally eat twice as much as at any other time. Whenever a pig was killed the raw entrails composed a delicious feast ;-and grog for ever. They always drank their liquor neat, and seldom less than a pint at the time; and when one got drunk, all hands did the saine. They varied their dress occasionally, from a piece of cloth round the middle, to their long coats and trowsers. The Queen was sometimes dressed in the richest silks, which were soon covered with filth and grease. They were very affable with the crew, and it was no uncommon sight to see black and white pigging in together, like the checkers on a draftboard. There was no jealousy amongst them. When her majesty got groggy she was very loving, and would be always kissing and hugging her royal spouse, till it was carried too far, and then she used to get knocked down. One of their greatest luxuries was to strip naked, and get one of the crew to heave buckets of water over them. Their majesties were uncommonly attached, and if either one was sick the other would sit crying by the side. Boguey's wife was distinguished by the name of She Boguey. Cards were