There is no room for questioning that the territory here is England's--England's by right of conquest; ceded to England by the Treaty of Utrecht.

Three times, indeed--in 1727, 1779, and 1792--France and Spain have disputed our title, but always to no purpose.

You are, I assure you, at the present moment, as much on English soil as if you were in London, in the middle of Trafalgar Square." It was now the turn of the captain and the count to look surprised.

"Are we not, then, in Corfu ?" they asked.
"You are at Gibraltar," replied the colonel.
Gibraltar! The word fell like a thunderclap upon their ears.

Gibraltar! the western extremity of the Mediterranean! Why, had they not been sailing persistently to the east?
Could they be wrong in imagining that they had reached the Ionian Islands?
What new mystery was this?
Count Timascheff was about to proceed with a more rigorous investigation, when the attention of all was arrested by a loud outcry.
Turning round, they saw that the crew of the _Dobryna_ was in hot dispute with the English soldiers.