The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

CI-A....._......'X. XX XiA/.' Prions pies tho hoktilo.quafdrou,
ut1 iou~ heo lie p's thtoi rage,
I,.a3 of blood t!ctength enfcebles;
Who can war with t hoamndls wvage?":
V:s cannot detain the narrative, to detail the
se nees'which busy \wo:d!etr, aided by the lelatolnl
of divers tmarvellois feats, }iprodulie( amlong the
cutriouts sefamtc who remained in the ship, and(
their rlle orC f nlrtate fcellows, who had retu rned in
tgoryt'flom an expedition to the land. Flt'or nearly
an hour the turbulence of a geterat l movenlnt
as lteard, issuilng firotl the deep recesses of the
(tigate, aind the boisterous sotunds of thoarset e'riunient wvere listened to by the offiers; it indulttl'ent
siletce; but all these, sxymptoms of unbritdled Iumour ceased( by (tbe tiune the morning rep)ast
tas endei, when the reguhlar sea-wattch wa8s set,
atnd tihe greater porition of those whose dutyv did
not requirel thir preit se ie on tthe vesses de,
availed themselves of the opportunity to repair the
loss of steel) sustained in the preceding niight
Still no tprep!:tat'ations were m1ade to put the- ship i.
ttotion, though tonig anll earn'est consultationts.
whlich wvere slpposed to reiatet to their fittle des