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. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). Bill. One or more of his owncolor even ventured to help out lapses of memoryand frequent bibulous incoherency of descriptionby supplying the necessary details. At the Flats we rumbled over the bridge that Beautiful Bermuda 13 spanned the inlet to Harrington Sound. Here thedriver slowed down his team. It was then thatBill, assisted by two natives, pointed out GallowsIsland off the Cape. We lookedout from the stage to a low, flatcoral island fringed about withfoam, and saw a rude projectionwhich a native said was all thatwas left of the gibbet. The s
. Isles in summer seas : (beautiful Bermuda). Bill. One or more of his owncolor even ventured to help out lapses of memoryand frequent bibulous incoherency of descriptionby supplying the necessary details. At the Flats we rumbled over the bridge that Beautiful Bermuda 13 spanned the inlet to Harrington Sound. Here thedriver slowed down his team. It was then thatBill, assisted by two natives, pointed out GallowsIsland off the Cape. We lookedout from the stage to a low, flatcoral island fringed about withfoam, and saw a rude projectionwhich a native said was all thatwas left of the gibbet. The story-connected with the origin of theislets name is, in effect, thata slave was hangedthere; his skull being left tobleach on the gallows for manyyears. The date of this occurrence is ob-scure, though Bill fixed it as June 8, 1708. Hestuck to it in spite of the protestations of an eld-erly Uncle, in the back of the stage, who stout-ly maintained that it was June ninth of that were amused at the earnestness of the dispute;. 14 Isles in Summer Seas in fact we took it as a compliment that so muchof effort shotild be expended in setting us right onso small a matter as this date. Argument on thequestion lasted until we reached the Causeway,the link between the Main and St. Georges old woman in the seat just behind the driverseemed vastly interested in the dispute, thoughtaking no part in it. Several times she seemed onthe point of projecting her individuality to thefore, but for some unaccoimtable reason held looked crossly at the old Uncle, however,and I distinctly saw her lips form the word she made no sound. A kinky haired school-girl got in at this place and, there being no vacantseats, the disputatious gentleman calmly took themaid on his loiees. We were mounting a steep grade in the CaveRegion when the Artist nudged me to look. Closeby the road, in a little hollow, lay a stone housewith this legend sprawling over its side: Beautif
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