A sailor's life under four sovereigns . Keppels Folly. made a remark about his sister in reply to one hemade about me. I did not know then that he had 90 A Sailors Life CHAP. 1829. a sister, although he had five, all uncommonly good-June 25. looking—I married one ! Arrived off St. Helena. Our Captain had servedin one of the ships that had guarded the island duringthe residence of the great Napoleon. His ImperialMajesty had died May 5, 1821, and his remainsrested in a spot chosen by himself—a garden at. Napoleon s Gra the foot of a deep ravine; the grave, between twowillow-trees, close to a fou
A sailor's life under four sovereigns . Keppels Folly. made a remark about his sister in reply to one hemade about me. I did not know then that he had 90 A Sailors Life CHAP. 1829. a sister, although he had five, all uncommonly good-June 25. looking—I married one ! Arrived off St. Helena. Our Captain had servedin one of the ships that had guarded the island duringthe residence of the great Napoleon. His ImperialMajesty had died May 5, 1821, and his remainsrested in a spot chosen by himself—a garden at. Napoleon s Gra the foot of a deep ravine; the grave, between twowillow-trees, close to a fountain, from which he hadduring life been specially supplied. To visit thespot with the Captain was a pleasant and 2. Called at Ascension, then little better than a huge cinder ; there was a small spring some seven milesdistant. Its redeeming point was the kind mannerin which the finest turtle landed to deposit their eggson the numerous sanded inlets ; this they preferreddoing on bright moonshiny nights, never dreamingthat they were being watched. And having coveredwith sand as many or more than a hundred luscious v Arrive Home 91 eggs, the size and shape of a large orange, left them the sun to hatch. Their own tracks carefullysprinkled with sand, on returning to the briny deep,they little thought they were to be turned on theirbacks, above high-water mark, by huge RoyalMarines, there to await passage to the table of theFirst Lord of the Admiralty or his friends! Of
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