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    as a skate when crimping . I didn't know what in the world to do with him . The case wa& this . Directly the party had landed they were surrounded by a great crowd , among whom some soldiers had been clearly distinguished . The boat had then been hauled out

    of the water a long way up the beach , and none of our people were now seen in or near her ; and this having been the case some time , the Ambassador and the rest on deck began to grow uneasy , particularly the former ( whose alarm I fancy was principally about the Baron ) , who desired me tell the First Lieutenant to approach nearer the fort , in order to let them see that we noticed what was going forward and were prepared to resent any insult offered to the British flag ! " Good / ' said

    the First Lieutenant : " a good joke , " thought I . He immediately set about putting this request in execution , and I continued in difficult conversation with the General . His French , with the Spanish accent and idiom , bore about as close a resemblance to the language he meant it for , as broad Scotch does to English . He understood me , however , well enough , when I hinted how bad a chance the fresh paint on the bows of

    the boat would have against the pebbles on the beach ; and his alarm was increased five-fold by the idea . At length we saw them returning , and the ship was hove to . They entered the boat and shoved off . They had scarcely got twenty fathoms from the beach when they were hailed , as we conjectured , from the fort , and a small gun being fired a-head

    of them , they were obliged to pull back . They left the boat again , in company with several persons , and were conducted up towards the fort , which they entered , I now began to be really alarmed at their situation , and anxious for the result . Mr South came down into the state-cabin , where the General ,

    Sen , Castillio , and myself , were standing , the former with a telescope in his hand , the other with a cigar , and proposed laying the frigate right in front of the fort , as though they purposed resenting any offence offered to our party , by a good broadside . The Ambassador signified his assent to this ; and , by the bye , South was just the man who would have fired one in earnest , if ,

    after taking the above position , we had not soon descried our party returning again to their boat . They jumped in , pulled tiff , and were soon alongside , to our great satisfaction . They brought with them some huge black pines , eggs , cigars , strawhats , &c . Captain S—> . — had also bought a flat-iron of some old Indian washerwoman , and P no sooner came on deck

    thah he set down a great , ugly , staring land-crab , which , from th £ i length of its legs , he must have been at no trifling pains to catch , \ vho instantly scrambled off towards the forecastle , and Ml ' crump down the fore hatchway .

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    26 Mexican Sketches .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/28/