[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER XVII 2/6
Blow on, and land me at her feet, to call the lost lamb home, and die!" So murmured Frank to himself, as with straining eyes he gazed upon that first outlier of the New World which held his all.
His cheeks were thin and wasted, and the hectic spot on each glowed crimson in the crimson light of the setting sun.
A few minutes more, and the rainbows of the West were gone; emerald and topaz, amethyst and ruby, had faded into silver-gray; and overhead, through the dark sapphire depths, the Moon and Venus reigned above the sea. "That should be Barbados, your worship," said Drew, the master; "unless my reckoning is far out, which, Heaven knows, it has no right to be, after such a passage, and God be praised." "Barbados? I never heard of it." "Very like, sir: but Yeo and I were here with Captain Drake, and I was here after, too, with poor Captain Barlow; and there is good harborage to the south and west of it, I remember." "And neither Spaniard, cannibal, or other evil beast," said Yeo.
"A very garden of the Lord, sir, hid away in the seas, for an inheritance to those who love Him.
I heard Captain Drake talk of planting it, if ever he had a chance." "I recollect now," said Amyas, "some talk between him and poor Sir Humphrey about an island here.
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