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was immediately recalled , to the duties which he had unknowingly violated . He dismissed his men , and placed a guard at the chateau to prevent similar outrages .
From the Brothers Boisgard and Sawve , members of the Royal Lodge of Isis at Paris , to I * . * ' Ch * * F * * & c . & c * " Cape of Good Hope , 2 & th Nov ., 1817 . * Having promised to write to you as soon as the ship arrived at the Isle of France , we have perhaps surprised you by not performing our promise . But a great misfortune prevented us . Three days after passing the line , our ship took fire , on account of the igniting of the great quantity of vitriol and other
inflammable matter stowed away in the hold . On discovering this calamity , we were about sixty miles from Trinity Island , and although we heard that this spot was a savage and uncultivated place , we were in hopes it might eventually prove our salvation . We made all sail we could towards it , but the labour was immense , ' owing to the state of the vessel . But we had the good fortune to arrive there just as the smouldering fire had reduced the sides of the ship to the thickness of three inches , while the interior was completely carbonized . I shall omit for the present
to narrate the curious life we led on the island , and inform you that on the 10 th of September we were , by the generosity of an American captain who touched there , landed in safety at the Gape of Good Hope . Deprived of all our property ,, we were obliged to make known our wants to those men whom the world has so much calumniated . Happily for us , we found there were four Freemasons' Lodges there , each of which pressed forward to relieve us , particularly one named the Good Faith , We were quickly supplied with food and lodging , clothes and linen .
Our generous hosts urged us to remain with them ; but finding we had decided to sail in a few days to the Isle of France , our original destination , they supplied us with wine , brandy , biscuits , and in short every necessary in abundance for our voyage . Will you , my dear friends , explain all this to our Brothers S . M . & c . & c , of the Chapter of Isis , for whose prosperity we most ardently pray , and we hope that the Lodge will communicate with that of the Good Faith , for the important services they have rendered us , " *
Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CETJISE TO BALAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 162 . ) August 26 th . — "Winds still rising—clouds lowering—very little canvass showing . Herr Miiller highly philosophic and instructive . It seems the waters we are now navigating received tlieir name from the Greeks and Romans , in consequence of the frequent thick black fogs , caused by the surrounding mountains intercepting the
vapours when they rise from its surface ,. Wonderful to relate , the captain and the small German agreed touching the lower level of the Mediterranean . being the cause of the strong current that sets south through the Bosphorus . Indeed , Herr Miiller , whose reading seems to have been various and deep , entertained us much by his account of theories touching the Black Sea—of a Grecian legend , how Orpheus sailed from the Euxine to * For an account of the Jeune Sophia of Havre , see the journals of the day . [ We advise the Maltese and West-Indian Brethren to detail these facts to their Popish persecutors , with an exhortation to " go and do likewise . "—Ed . F . M . M ' . ]
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was immediately recalled , to the duties which he had unknowingly violated . He dismissed his men , and placed a guard at the chateau to prevent similar outrages .
From the Brothers Boisgard and Sawve , members of the Royal Lodge of Isis at Paris , to I * . * ' Ch * * F * * & c . & c * " Cape of Good Hope , 2 & th Nov ., 1817 . * Having promised to write to you as soon as the ship arrived at the Isle of France , we have perhaps surprised you by not performing our promise . But a great misfortune prevented us . Three days after passing the line , our ship took fire , on account of the igniting of the great quantity of vitriol and other
inflammable matter stowed away in the hold . On discovering this calamity , we were about sixty miles from Trinity Island , and although we heard that this spot was a savage and uncultivated place , we were in hopes it might eventually prove our salvation . We made all sail we could towards it , but the labour was immense , ' owing to the state of the vessel . But we had the good fortune to arrive there just as the smouldering fire had reduced the sides of the ship to the thickness of three inches , while the interior was completely carbonized . I shall omit for the present
to narrate the curious life we led on the island , and inform you that on the 10 th of September we were , by the generosity of an American captain who touched there , landed in safety at the Gape of Good Hope . Deprived of all our property ,, we were obliged to make known our wants to those men whom the world has so much calumniated . Happily for us , we found there were four Freemasons' Lodges there , each of which pressed forward to relieve us , particularly one named the Good Faith , We were quickly supplied with food and lodging , clothes and linen .
Our generous hosts urged us to remain with them ; but finding we had decided to sail in a few days to the Isle of France , our original destination , they supplied us with wine , brandy , biscuits , and in short every necessary in abundance for our voyage . Will you , my dear friends , explain all this to our Brothers S . M . & c . & c , of the Chapter of Isis , for whose prosperity we most ardently pray , and we hope that the Lodge will communicate with that of the Good Faith , for the important services they have rendered us , " *
Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CETJISE TO BALAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 162 . ) August 26 th . — "Winds still rising—clouds lowering—very little canvass showing . Herr Miiller highly philosophic and instructive . It seems the waters we are now navigating received tlieir name from the Greeks and Romans , in consequence of the frequent thick black fogs , caused by the surrounding mountains intercepting the
vapours when they rise from its surface ,. Wonderful to relate , the captain and the small German agreed touching the lower level of the Mediterranean . being the cause of the strong current that sets south through the Bosphorus . Indeed , Herr Miiller , whose reading seems to have been various and deep , entertained us much by his account of theories touching the Black Sea—of a Grecian legend , how Orpheus sailed from the Euxine to * For an account of the Jeune Sophia of Havre , see the journals of the day . [ We advise the Maltese and West-Indian Brethren to detail these facts to their Popish persecutors , with an exhortation to " go and do likewise . "—Ed . F . M . M ' . ]