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ADVENTURES OF MADAME DENOYER. 
At the dawning of the following day they set sail, and kepf 
out to sea. Madame Denoyer inquired whether they intend- 
ed to take her to New- York. They replied, that if she wish- 
ed to go to Cape Francois, one of them would take her, the 
children and black servant, thither in the canoe which they 
had on board. Anxiety concerning her future fate; the sight 
of the ^-illains, stained with her husband's blood ; her forlorn 
situation; her apprehensions and grief; induced her to ac- 
cept this offer, though the canoe was very small to with^and 
the fury of the waves ; this kind of boat being made of a 
single trunk of a tree, after the manner of those of the sava- 
ges of America. Having acquainted them with her resolu- 
tion, John told her to pack up her linen in a bundle, her box- 
es being too bulky to be removed into a canoe. He himself 
put into it a wretched straw matress, four biscuits, a pitcher 
containing about four quarts of fresh water, six eggs, and a 
small quantity of salt pork. John having put into it the two 
children and the black servant, searched Aladame Denoyers 
pockets, where he found her husband's silver stock-buckle 
and shoe-buckles, which he took from her, together with 
the linen which she had packed up. Having at length got 
into the boat, she waited with impatience for the conductor 
that had been promised her, when she saw Young cut the rope 
by which the boat was fastened : he then repaired to the helm, 
while John set the sails, and the vessel was soon out of sight. 
The sky and the ocean were the only objects she had then in 
view. 
Abandoned in the midst of the waves, far from any coast, 
the forlorn Avidow demanded relief of her husband's assassins ; 
she conjured them, with all the eloquence of an affectionate 
mother, to take compassion on her infant offspring. When 
her voice failed, she continued to supplicate with the most ex- 
pressive and affecting gestures. The assassins, deaf to her 
intreatiss, abandoned the wretched family to its fate, and dis- 
appeared. 
Consternation, the excess of ker grief, the danger which 
threatened the objects dearest to her heart, combined to reduce 
her to a state of total insensibilit5\ Her faithful servant em- 
ployed every method in her power to recover her mistress. 
She revived, but only to behold the abyss ready to receive 
her, to deplore the wretched situation of her beloved children, 
who were likely to be the prey of the monsters of the deep. 
She pressed them to her bosom, bedewed them with her 
tears, and every time she cast her eyes upon them she ima- 
