It was remarked, however, that he started on a voyage in a schooner and came back in a brig, which gave rise to some inquiry.

It may be, as he said, that he found it drifting about in the North Sea, and abandoned his own vessel in favour of it, but they hung him before he could prove it.

Tertia ran away with a north-country drover, and hath been on the run ever since.

Quartus and Nonus have been long engaged in busying themselves over the rescue of the black folk from their own benighted and heathen country, conveying them over by the shipload to the plantations, where they may learn the beauties of the Christian religion.

They are, however, men of violent temper and profane speech, who cherish no affection for their younger brother.