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    no mile stones nor finger posts . A little shivering needle in a cir * cular box , and a star over head , are all the index and beacons ; yet will she flit across the wide and pathless waste of waters , as truly as an arrow shot from a bow , though the points be a thousand leagues asunder . This very thought alone is sufficient to reconcile one to mouldy biscuits and putrid water for a month occasionally . So with a swish , into the very middle of the gaping jaws of the Cove of Cork did the A— gallantly rush ; anchored and moored , and lay there to bide her time ; ' while the hands were

    exercised , daily , in loosing , reefing , and furling sails , and working the guns . There was the green shore under my eye , and I often wished it were under my foot ; but , by degrees , I thought less of the deprivation , and was anxious only to be moving further away ; lecturing myself , occasionally , into a resolution to become a tough one , to endure hardships ; and constantly failing , it seemed , in body , as I tried nay strength at endurance , I could not trace my progress , though it is certain I was not stationary in this matter ; and whatever might have been the treatment of others , I can complain , myself , of no real harshness , or particular severity . On the contrary , there was much disposition to kindness exhibited , and endeavour so to employ me , as to relieve from liability to the maltreatment to which , otherwise necessarily , ( as the discipline is ordered , ) I must have been exposed .

    Nearly one-third of our crew were Irish , and the daily visitants from the shore to see sons , brothers , and friends on board , presented many of those singular scenes , which in the warmth , and , to an Englishman , oddity and extravagance of Irish character , were so remarkable a commingling of the ludicrous with the pathetic . Some were well-clad tradesmen , but by far the greater part were stockingless ; some shoeless ; many , too , who had , thus equipped , ( or expended their better equipments on the way ,

    perhaps , ) traversed from the North-West extremity of Connaught just to exchange a word or a salute with a friend or relative , and then bid farewell for ever . There was one man , in green old age , about sixty , who came on board to see his son , Justin Moran ; he had the appearance of a decent farmer , in his corduroys and heavy top boots , and two coats , each trailing down to his heels ;

    evidently he was of much heavier worldly substance than any of the motley and tattered beings , who daily flitted about the decks , or stood between the guns , alternately silent , sad and whispering , with mouths in contact , and screaming out a wild laugh of joy , and pattering the decks with their brogues or naked feet , in a sudden ecstacy . To see his boy , Justin , the old man came on board . Of all tho odd Irishmen we could muster , Justin Moran was the oddest ; a compound of idiocy and hard cunning—clumsy cunning" ; a creature , whose visage , eye 3 exceptcd , informed one he was half demented ; but in tho eye was a sly sinister knavery peeping out at times ; it betokened a depraved , a brutalized

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    29 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/28/