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asters. No mortal was to be blamed, but evidentlythe whole to be attributed to our own unhappydestiny. Nothing could be more explicitly andsearchingly investigated, more satisfactorily estab-lished by irrefragable testimony. Such Avas our fate,that it could not be avoided. Hoav not rather imputeto misfortune than to perfidy or ignorance of seaaffairs, that the large first-rate of the Genoese, thePharaoh, full of provisions, stores, arms, and menmiserably went down in a calm Avithin the port ofModon? The three hundred French knights hadshipAvrecked, and hardly saved themselves inMessina.

The Bailiff of the Eagle, Sir Thomas NeAA’port,Avith the English knights, and a chosen body of Eng-lish troops in their pay, incorporated into a legion,besides a large sum of gold and silver, as Avell asstores of all sorts, Avas driven by a furious tempestout of his course and into a creek where theAvhole cargo and every soul perished.

A sworn document related to his ha vine; beenseen from the top of the cliff near Dover. That heAvas riding very fast, for now it Avas his last half-mile to the Avater Avhich Avas quite calm, but hemight have observed a very small red cloud in thedistant horizon. He had landed from duty as he re-turned. His boat Avaited him on the beach all ready!