Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ward bound; they might not, within a consider- able period, touch at any part where there was consecrated ground, and they prayed permission to inter his remains in the little chapel erected on the island. No weapon should be brought on shore, and, in return for the permission, a present would be made of such commodities as they had on board; their only object was, that the bones of their departed friend might be committed, not to the mercy of the waves, but to a peaceful rest in the holy chapel. Accessible through their religious feelings to this demand, the French were nevertheless somewhat sus- picious ; but the seamen acted their parts with so much simple earnestness, and they had already given such a striking evidence of the perfect harmlessness of their intentions, in voluntarily throwing themselves into the power of the others, that permission was at length given, upon the express condition, however, that not so much as a ‘ pocket-knife ’ would be allowed to be brought on shore—a condition which obtained the readiest assent from the men, who returned to the ship, concealing their exultation, until beyond the reach of detection, at the partial success of their adventure. “ On shipboard that night a goodly-sized coffin, which, in anticipation of the mournful event, had been prepared, Avas filled, not Avith the cold