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plunged its own head into the vessel between that of 

 a fair blonde and a negro, without the latter being 

 at all disturbed. Pictures, assuredly never to be for- 

 gotten by those who gazed upon them. 



As the number of about five hundred passengers 

 and ship -folk was too large to be transported by the 

 small man-of-war, the captain determined to leave the 

 crew on the island under a guard of sailors from the 

 war-ship, to be kept under strict discipline on account 

 of their mutinous behaviour , but to take all the 

 passengers on board and convey them to Aden. So 

 we arrived, packed in fearfully close quarters on the 

 deck of the little ship, again in Aden, where the 

 telegraphic news of our arrival in Suez had already 

 been anxiously awaited. By order of the governor of 

 Aden the next homeward-bound passenger steamer had 

 to take up almost the entire number of the shipwrecked, 

 in spite of its being already overcrowded. But we 

 gladly bore the inconveniences of this passage, and of 

 the further one from Alexandria to Marseilles , and 

 thanked God that we had not met with a tragic end 

 on the lone coral rocks of the Harnish Islands. 



Neither in Cairo nor in Alexandria had we leisure 

 to improve our very defective external appearance. 

 Nearly all had lost their whole baggage in the ship- 

 wreck, and most of us were without funds. Not be- 

 fore Paris, whither we travelled without stopping, was 

 an opportunity afforded for a fresh outfit. We were 

 all obliged to travel by way of Marseilles, as the har- 

 bour of Trieste was blockaded by the French, and the 



