. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 217 the belief that the Arifl was found only two miles out from Via Reggie. Who put this idea into his head ? As I see the matter, none other than this man who was in charge of the dredging operations till Trelawny departed for Rome, the captain, apparently, of the felucca in which both Roberts and Trelawny's mate had observed several spars belonging to the Ariel. The question which one naturally asks is, " Why did this man report that he had found the boat only two miles from shore, but could not get her up ? " And the answer which arises in one's min
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 217 the belief that the Arifl was found only two miles out from Via Reggie. Who put this idea into his head ? As I see the matter, none other than this man who was in charge of the dredging operations till Trelawny departed for Rome, the captain, apparently, of the felucca in which both Roberts and Trelawny's mate had observed several spars belonging to the Ariel. The question which one naturally asks is, " Why did this man report that he had found the boat only two miles from shore, but could not get her up ? " And the answer which arises in one's mind is, " Because he realised that its broken timbers would serve as a daughter wrote to him from Rome on November 22nd, that " a little while ago there died at Spezzia an old sailor, who, in his last confessions to the priest (whom he told to make it public), stated that he was one of the crew that ran down the boat containing Shelley and Williams which was done under the impression that the rich ' milord Byron ' was on board with lots of money. " They did not intend to sink the boat, but to board her and murder Byron. She sank, he said, as soon as she was ; Miss Trelawny's letter was published in The Times,. THE C.\SA MAGXI IX iS::2, WITH THE BOAT (THE ARIEL) IN WHICH SHELLEY W.\S DROU'NICO From a draicing by Captain D. Roberts, who built the "; witness against him, and that, therefore, any sub- sequent search-parties must be ; Before proceeding, I must say that this is a conjec- ture of which I am by no means certain, and, even if we dismiss it, this does not affect the other arguments that the Ariel was run down intentionally. Even at the time of the disaster, as Leigh Hunt' wrote, " a sus- picion was not wanting that the boat had been run down by a larger one with a view to plunder it. Mr. Shelley was known to have taken money on board. Crimes of that nature had occurred often enough to warrant such a
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