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dared to .. ctot agfence ^ rfcww ekchato gihg hostile frowns with foes —to see those hastening and hurrying to hail us with greedy welcome , who so lately would have fled from us as from destruction ,, or met us only with purposes of defiance and death—to be there ,
under the glad heart-flashed gaze of that white city ' s tens of thousands of admiring eyes—to be there , listening to their shouts of joy ; to see the waving and skimmering of forests and parterres of caps , handkerchiefs , scarfs , shawls , and streamers from quays , walls , doors , windows , and roofs : the approaching swarms of boats
converging from so many points ; each with its full load of human creatures , restless , heaving , and fluttering with hilarious
gratulaiiea ; women and girls gemming the laughing water , and gladdening the brilliant air , in their picturesque and beautiful apparel , and their luxuriance of loveliness : our decks crowded with men , in whose sun-tinctured visages eyes shot forth a fire of delight , while voices , and hands , and arms chorused the eyes' eloquence ; aye , and the very men who , by our seizure of their property two nponths before , we had nearly reduced to mercantile ruin—the men
whom we had taken prisoners , now came on board , and threw themselves on the necks of their captors , and shed tears of rapture at seeing them again ! What a wondrous change was wrought ! The whole scene stood—all—the city and fortresses , villas , trees , gardens , the sea , and the sky , all , in an attitude of grand pleasure , and smiled on us : and threw , at the same moment , a scowl of
hatred and revenge on the new foes , Spain ' s late allies , who there in silence looked on and listened to us : to us the smile alone was visible then . Oh , it was a glorious dream ; and such sensations as I then enjoyed were worth living through months of misery for ; but soon there came a change . A barge , rowed in stately time
by about sixteen oars , and bearing at her stern a grand Spanish ensign , which floated sleepily in the small breeze , swept out from Port St . Mary ' s , across the harbour , towards the city ; she had another boat in tow , in which sat two apparently unemployed men . As soon as she was descried by the people in the boats which
surrounded the A a sudden and simultaneous yell rose from the multitude , and as suddenly all was utterl y still again for some moments ; and then nothing was heard but the rapid splashing of oars , and the fierce rushing of the hundreds of boats through the foamy water towards that exciting cause . They seemed all to be struck into mute madness . It was like an electric
shock communicated at once to thousands of people , each feeling alike , and each understanding the feelings and wishes of the others ; or as a flash of light , which covers all within its range with a full blase . What parley took place between the multitude and the people in the official and ominous-looking boat and her
tow , or whether the design were understood without communication by words , I know not ; but it was understood \ and instead of
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4 J * 6 Autohiograpky of Pel Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/62/
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