ALL RIGHTS CHERVED.] HIS ISLAND PRINCESS, FROM THE NOTES of Rupert de LA TOCH
(1825).
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W. CLARK RUSSELL.
Autor of The Wreck of the Gramenor,” "Overdue," &e.)
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TM¤, 1904.
I turned my eyes round the land, seans crediting that these two should be the only ve cupunts of it. No form of life save the birds moved.
*What is the paws of this island, six ? said
I have named it Looboo," he answered, "Let us sit in this sude."
cent, daughter of Sir Roger Vincent, a baronet. whom he mein Paris. He left the French army and settles with his wife in a village near Hull, relations. My parents died, one soon after the where living was cheup, and where he had some other. I had very fow relations, and they all. Joaked callly on ano. I was about fourle years of age. At my own request. I was ap prenticed to the son by the Rar. John Wilson, We seated ourselves upon a little natural ray father's brother-in-law who, with the pro- Tassy rise in the gardon, and over us towered coods of the Colonel's estate, equipped me, and the bungls of some spacione treas casting an handed me a sum of about two hundred pounds."agreeable shado upon a wide area. The morn "Aud pray," says Captain Scott.how came ing breeze humined among the leaves, and you in the dreadful situation in which we found brought the incense of the flowors to our nos
I observe," he says, by the name in trils, and the en lag trembling in the glory of f your bunt, that you belong to an Amorian early suuskino. Eulalia sat elisa beside me." ship."
Is the island over visited " I enguired. By European ships, do you mean, or by islanders?
By either or both."
you
thoroughly equipped her for a voyage, and I, His eyes rested with a very kindly expression ÓR to steer to, and six months after our shipwreck in the direction of the house. gave then a little compass, and told them whore me whilst I addressed her. I then said, looking Lily and I were loft alene" +-
Do you know where they steered to, sir?" **I gave them the best course I coull for the Tonga Islands But they would certainly come across some islands betwoon this and that group."
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of nerves or sudlea disturbances of mind which He suddenly stood up in one of those passages would occasionally break in upon the lordly dig xity of his repose. I stood up likewise.
Can you swim ?" asked Eulalie. **Not to well as you." I answered. can swim.
But I
She can fight a slark, so nimble is she in the sen," says Captain Scott.
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Pray, how did I get from that bout to the room I found myself in ?"
"We carried you," answered Captain Scott.! have been engraved by one of the most eminent
THE MAPS AND PLANS "You were alive. Wo conid not allow you to Firms in Great Britain sad aro corrected and perish here. Let us remove your stores. Many brought up to date. They consist this year of cocoanut, and fruit, and fish and such fowle of MAP OF THE FAR EAST years have passed since I tasted cheese."
As his fare consisted of dishes made from
foniteon of the following:- COLORED FLATRON FLAGSOF FOREIGN HONOS the air us could be shared, and ware good to est, I did not wonder that his Scotch palate yearned towards the favour of English cheese, nor would he be insensiblo to the appeal of the several hams and pieces of salt beef with which we had filled-the facker in the stern shoots.
We had not been able to lay in nach provi- How do you light sharks!" I enquire. sions, owing to the posture of the drunken I never win without a knife," she replied. scoundrels who threatened in the cabin of the "I have been here ten years." ho said, "and"But there ure vory few sharks. four ships only have passed in that time, tiro
I have only · Bedford " to send a bullet through my bead. of them hull down, and the only unfive that have seen did not trouble me."
fought two since we have been here. Others I Some large mats were in the canoe. With ver visited as from any other island was a dead
them we maile parcels of the hams and other There are very few sharks, as Lily says," stuffs, and slung the whole to the boat's mast, man in a cunos, whien erme ashore, and there said Captain Scott. If there were many, if together with the demijohns, one of which was she is," said ho point to the creek.
there were even low, the sport of swimming threequarters full of rum, for convenienes of Ten years!" I ere. "Is it possible that would be too dangerous for my child. I believo carriage. Captain Scott bore one "I have, sir," says I, and looking at Eulalie,
you have lived Lere alone with your daughter there is something in the water that in disagree-ast on his shoulder and 1 the ether end, and I said, putting my hand in my pocket. Will in years
able to them, and keeps then off. This is a Eulalis walked by my side. She did not know you do mo the hongar tunseept this little bag "Ay." answered. of diamonds as a very small telo of my gratioe. 3rd, 1778, and here," he exclaimed, draw by that mountain during our residence, and you she never remembered seeing a pig. I naked We were wrecked on volcanic island. Fire Las been twice belched what a hom was. When I explained she said cudu for your goodness, and of my admiration of ing himself up with that book of diguity he had can see the stean:
Britain, wo chos to remain, and shall con- tinue to repu
me,
"You Justo neen much and suffered much," said the Captain when I had made an end.
STNOTER OF INSTALMENTS I to V.-Rupert de la Touebo is second mate on one of a feet of convict, tup, leaving England for a distant country. Among the Wernen prisoners is a young and bountiful girl, In what her Lame is, or for what wha is being Oh, dear no," I cried, feeling myself colour, Iguished, no one knows. When only a few days a
I will explain how I came into thit ship." me vhis giri jumps overboard, ani la Toneho imme lutely diven after bar, at though resetand stil takon
And thereupon I told my story, beginnin on buint again ane diós almost at ones, and is kauriezi with the sailing of the ford from Spithead and The voyage now becomes eventiel in the ez-ouding at that part in the boat a here I fainted tresno. Fevent of the sailors and convicts declaro after holding, as I supposed, the apparition That the ghost of the dead girl has appeared to them; of the beautiful convict girl swimming towards strange amazing scenos frighten the crow, nur! even the captain is awestruck by the sight of a strange white coast uct marked on the chart, but which žuma out to be an apparition. Whon within a fow days' suit of third station, in three-masted sekwoner in distrous in sighted, which siguas to thots for a supply of fresh water. A boat is at once lowered, and in Tone and four sailora proceed to the vessel. The captuia invites la onoho auto his cabin, and ander the elenco of luinging wie goes out, locking voyage, the efforts of the convict fleat to ensop with ber being availing. At last the captain goo back to his prisonat, and tell him that he and his companions hava boce taken in onder to help him to avigate his ship to the South Sea Islands, mozno of his crow haring illød. La Tanolie knows that resist. mon is uneleng, so he promises to ust na mate on this extraordinary voyage. A few days later, during tha midnight watch, the schooner strikes a ref, unil becomes so faly wedged on the rocks that hope of getting her off nguin is uhandeteed. Daybreak dia. clonus another ubij also stranded, but a shirt distance
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the dour behind him. Thợ ship now starts on her your suzing coura, sund skil?" and I banded on wheu ao called himself the king, of Great near the crate from the hot springs rising her if she could tell a horse if she saw it, Yes, concluded with the countrios of Eastern Asia,
away. The captain seks ta Touche to go and insot her, which ho does. The only discoveries ho makes are the dead body of a man, and a chost containing. valuable stones I silver articles, some of which to taken away with lima On his return be finds tlust the captain has been murdered by one of his crew, while other aro ngaged in breaking open the rura gasks. Learing them to their fate, la Touch; and Cone luichi a boat and set wit, hoping to arrive an iad. Another strange vansul in sighted, but though signalled to does not respond and suddenly disappears aitogether. This was evident y a phantom ahip, and the men look upon it as an omen of death; in fact, almost directly afterwardsetio of them dion suddenly. They had now been several days on the open so, when water in noticed in the well of the bat. Thinking that it is looking, the men sot to work to bald it out, but disuovor that it in the fresh water from the cask, and that they are left with only a drop of one dy to quonch their awful thirst. One of them goes mud, two ethem jump overboard, and ba Toneho is left alone. On the elevent day, low- ever, ha is rescued by a girl in no extraoribonary msnner, taken to her home and treated with great kischung by herself und her father, who calls himself the King of Great Britain.
CHAPTER VI.
INOBOO.
When the man said he was king of Great Britain I was startled and immediately set him
down as a lunatic. But his voice was no kwost,
his manner so graud, his appearance so noble, his whole bearing so dignified, I may say king ly. that an awe possessed and rescued me from affronting him by the smile of incredulity or pity that commonly attends the sallios of the disordered brain. I refrained from any other demonstration than a low bow, which, cousilor- ing that I was young and an ingenuous sailor, and under a sudden" surprise. I recall as an excellent stroke of tuct.
He gazed at me fixoily, as though to observe the effect produced by liis confession, and after a short interval of waiting he added. But I -content myself by being flown by my family name of Scott-I am Captain Malcolm Scott. So saying he made a step wad conducted me through one of the windows into a little room
tike that I had occupied. He id aside a long
mat seroon, and bade mo entor.
I passed into an inner room, lighted by win. dows in the western side of the balding. These windows were merely apertures between sup ports protected by mats when the storia arose, or The rain was blows, otherwise in this delicious climate you needed nothing but a roof. This room was of a goodly size and, as I saw at a glance, was furnished with articles that had surved as the equipment of a ship. The table had andoubtedly heon used in a cabin. Later on I took rotics of other points which will appear in their place.
for the little me which I had taken from the
yhow.
"Hold" erind Captain Scott, rising swiftly and looking with excitement, thongh speaking with an air of command. In seasible of the goodness of heart which prompts the gift, but it is the eustean, certainly at ths Court of Britain, to vequest permission be ore presenting a gift to a princess of the blood royal"
He towered somewhat in his mich. and I very clearly perceived that I was in the presence of a man upon whose mind had fustered i pun- grene delusion.
glanced at Eukdie to observe how he took her father. But if it was clear to me now that he was crazy, that is, mudr' one Ind, it was equally clear to me that his duchter did not know if.
For the sopoutine the blvosi fled tay cheeks, But I was not to be disconcerted by the harm- less craze of a man whom I believed I could easily come to love, and bending my eyes upon thes floor, deferentially said to him
"I beg your parlor, sir. I believe you will to the first to overlook ignoraneo of customna in u sailor. Will you suffer me to do myself the honar to mark the feelings your daughter's humanity and courago have excited by present ing her with this gift of diamonds?**
He bowed, and with a dignified motion of his arm, explained: "Our hospitality is our plez. sure, sir, and your gift is too bandy me."
Nevertheless, I gave the bag to Eulalie, who took it and shook a few of the diamonds into or land. As I have told you they were cut and proper for setting, and some of them sparkled gloriously. No doubt they had been removed from earrings, ringsand bracelets. She looked at them, but I saw no fire of delight in her ezer, such as is commonly kindled in the gaze of women to whom dianions are given. clear she did not know their value, and hand they been shells picked from tho sea bench ale could not have viewed the gems with a mors artless indiferenco.
Her fathor examined thero.
TWAN
They are very fus," said he, "I have dealt in such things, but mostly in pearls. This is a very nobis gift, sir. There is the dowry of a prineoss here, Lily," says ho.
ו.
He did not the, nor did he ever afterwards, ank me how I came by them, which I considerat a fie sign of his noble character und gentle. manly spirit.
kindly, wo will put these diamonds away with "At all events," said he, looking at me vory the rest of Eulalie's little estate."
When be pronounced her full name, he spoke it very gently, and with a sweet suilo,
He drew in to a chest that stood not far from where he had been seated, and taking a box out of it showed une a quantity of Spanish pieces in gold and a number of silver dollars about twenty or thirty English guineas, a sunil gold erucifix, three the sparkling rings and a wedding ring, a pair of earrings, and a watch and chain.
When we had moved to the chest Enlafio The girl was standing at the table when Ice with us, and stood close by my side, often stepped in.
looking up into my faen as though to witness the effect produced by the splendours her father was showing me, and also as though she could never be weary of watching me, who was some- thing extraordinarily rew and surprising in that island and apparently in het be. Indeed she stood by me as though we had be a companions for years.
Her artlessness was exquisitely affecting to me, who could never have concoived the like of a quality of such incomparable purity in so beautiful a girl, though indoud she was this mest perfect chill of nature that ever lived.
Captain Scott's face was very grave and sol- ms he looked upon the pices of money and jewels
the box in "That crucifix,"
RAY he with a sigh, be lengte her mother," ustioning with his head at Eulalie.That was her mother's wedding ring. Her grave is in the garden. Did you
She had deep black liquid ayes filled with fire, like the dark son when glowing with phosphorus soft gloomy bronze hair, not in sɗch abundance as to cloud and oppress the beaution it was intended to adora; her coraptorion was a delicate palo Spanish brown, and her cheeks blushed really for faeth were small and white, and gleamed like pearls aher lips when she was kilent, lay parto. She Lad & little Roman moga and dark eyebrows slightly tipped towards the hrow so as to give her expression in moota of repose a quality of demure archaoss. Her litabs were lovely in girlish fulness and proportion, and instead she was a most admirable picture of a young woman.
Says Captain Scott, who in: mediately followed DeLily, the gentleman you have rescued is Mr. Rupert de la Touche. He flourished his hund towards the girl, and added,
"My daughter. Mr. de la Touche, the Princess Bullie. and these words he pronounced with groat diguity of tune, and find grandeur of bearing,
'Are you quite well now ?" says she, addros- ing me as easily as though we had been brought up together as children.
see it "
1 dici, sir," I answered.
“Oh, my heart is buried with her-my heart ia koro," he cried with a great and sudden rehe. mant note of grief in his voice.
He put the diamonds in the box, and returned it to the cheat, once or twice sighing deeply,
Is Mr. da lu Touche going to stop hors asked Eulalie.
for ever," says 1.
"I believe I should be happy to dwell here
Tis an osan paradise." Her face lighted up, her eyes swam, but she said nothing.
Iholievo I am." I answered, looking at her with an admiration which I guld rot, ideal did not think needful to dissemble. I owe my life to you. madam," says I, scarcely knowing whother, as she had been interfuced as a princess, I should address her as Hur Royal
"You would not care to exile yourself from Highness, and I am indeed deeply grateful."
your native land," said Captain Scott, stopping Pray sit nut naike a weal," says Captains to follow him to the open; and Eulalie towards one of the windows as an invitation to Scott, We have breakfasted. What have you provided, Lily? for so be termed her, came with us at any side, as my shadow. though her name was Eulclie.
The life of a morehant sailor offers few chaaces,"
says, "and many people in England are starving for want of work.".
"But you would not care to expatriate your self." said Captain Scott.
Ay, sir, but where should I bo now but for your daughter" said I. turning upon for the warta look of my full heart. You must be a matchless swimmer."
she remembered horses in Lima. I apsin observed that the island, as much as Captain Scott, who was chead with his end of I could see, was covered with majestic trees; a the mast, was close enough to overlear, but gave I was discreot sough, however, to forbear little forest filled the southern part, and in thons no heel, making no sign of attention whether any domonstration of astonishment, and composed myself to talk as though the explains as fair as any I have ever seen at hom
west was a fine valley with sloping wooded by interjection, or a laugh, ar turning his head. traordinary situation in which I found those
His whole and seemed engrossed in the careful people placed was the most propor and natural in my face, and said gravely;
Captain Seatt seemed to witness the pleasure pilotage of our stung commodities through the
piece of country we wore travelling over.
su the world.
You will not wonder since my heart is Iere," and points to the grave, that my
| home should be
Since no ships visit the island." said L. cannot conceive, sir, how you are in possession of so many European conveniences which I olmerre in your house,"
I
"That is easily explained," he answered. was the owner of a schooner called the Eulalie, that traded chiefly from Lima in South America, lat from other ports in that part of the globe also, with the islanders in the seas. The goods I carried for trucking weronzes, scissors, knives. looking glasses, old shirts, nails, combs, cast iron pote, razors blankets, hammers, giwlots, and scores of articles of this description. I preserv. ed my gravity while he ran through this eats logue of shop contents, with the air of vagal diguity with which he had begun bis story. "In exchange for these goodn I received pearls, selues, feathered breastplates, sandal wood, cloth julaid, clubs, shell-armlets, and many other objects which are esteemed curiosities, and which fetch a good price. But I sought chiefly for pearls. and did extremely well in several voyager until that fatal one when in an evil moment I made up my mind to head for some of the southerú unexplored islaids--"
He stopped his head sank, he sighed deeply, his eyes were routed on the grave, and in that posture he remained as though he had fallen into a tranco. I durst not brack the silence.
Presently. Enialis, growing impatient as a child would says, "Father, tell Mr. de la Touche the story."
I looked at Eulalie. He followed the glance of my eye, but instead of interpreting it as I should bare wished he said, "I am going to take Mr. de la Touche to the creek."
It was extremely hot. The fine white light of the sun stang like tira itself. Eulalia's face that sho should leave her beautiful arms ex- was well shaded by her hat, but I wondered
protecting she could have kept them of the posix to bo burnt by the glare, whon by soft hue of her throat. In that short walk she asked me many questions; her eyes often met mine; and stall you be surprised if I arrived in that island, and in the company of the beautiful half-wild creature, whom hor father called princess, I was as mucit in ore with her as a young man can be at first sight, who is taken not by beauty only, but by appeals of a subtler and more drawing sweetness. And again and
house. I said to myself: What is
What for?" she cried, opening her eyes into an expression that glowed with alarm.
To show him his bout." said be in a soothsay that though I had not been many hours ing sweet voice. He will want to leave us.
Will you?" she cried, looking at me. No," says I, and certainly I would not leave in that boat. The very thought of it makes my bloed nu cold. Caly consider, sir. what I suffered in her."
We will view her nevertheless," says he
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and you, Lily, will see to our nutide There is plenty of time for that," saya sha, pouting. I will go with you," and I fancied though she had a spirit equal to the killing of perceived by the tremor in her lip that shark and the towing in of a beat, with a dying mon in her, she was a maiden to whom tears were not dithealt: Without another word Captain Scott wat ont for the greek and Eulalie and I followed him.
Eulalie lagged in her paces. She did not want to overtake Cupisin Geott, who stoppe She asked me if I remembered her getting into the bout, and she told me she had seen the bout He broke from his dream or reverie, and in the morning ou loving the house; she called directing his eyes at the girl, cried, "Ah, Lily, her father, who pointed his spy-glass at it, al thou knowest I would rather be without the wid that there was is holy of a man hanging crown of England than thy mother," and he over the bows. The boat was without wil, and then continued his story thus:
swayed idly on the tide which was carrying her "My wife's mother was the princess or queen;und to that point of the island and here the of ber island. Sho was a very handsome wonna. girl levelled her forefinger to the north comer A Spanish man-of-war called at the island of land. Thinking that the man in the boat Amongst her officers was one descended from an might be alive, she put on her swimming dress, ancient line of randees, Lieutenant Ambrosio but I was afraid," she says, looking very arch- Vivaldo. This gentleman, going ashore, fell in ly and sweetly at me, that you would be dead love with the gases, and the queen with him. before we reached the shore, though I swam He contrived to lose himself on the day of the hard. ship's sailing, und was loft behind. He married of the girl who sits near you. the queen, and by her had my wife, the mother
Sa that you have Scotch Spaniel, and Kangha blood in you, madu," said I.
And blood royal," exclaimed Captain Scott. "De Fon wish to know what my claime aro to the thirune of England? Know, sir, that I am a descendant of Anne, second Countess of Bue- cleoch, who married in 1663 Janos, Duke of Mcamonth, son of Charles II, by Lney Walters, James upon his marriage took the name of Scots, and be and his wife were erecated Duke and Duchess of Bncslouch. The duke was excguisd and his honours forfeited, but they were per petuated in the person of his duchess, and my claim to the throne," says he in a commanding is based on my descunt through the issue that union, namely, James, Earl of Dal keith.*
What was I to say? As I have told you I readily understood that he was and, and this notion of being a king is a somewhat common property amongst persons whose brains are distempered.
On his cowsing, I contented myself with bow. ing, colouring the action with all the respecti could infuss,
Tell Mr. de la Touche your story, father," says Eulalie, breaking in a little impatiently,
Captain Seatt disengaged his attention from his wife's grave, at which-ho had been gazing, and said: "I owed the schooner Eulalie,
and made several voyages in her, trading as have explained. In every voyage I took my wife and child. Olur koma was at Limn, whore wa umer reside after our long excursious amongst the islands. In my lust voyage, influenced by the whispers of the devil. I determined to steer south, and in thick wasther, and at midnight struck upon that rest which you see there," says he, pointing a little to the north of the mouth of the creek. The sea broko with weight upon the rocks. The ship was hard and fast. Our masts went, and one in falling mast have killed my beloved wife who was on deck. I knew not where she I believe she had remained in the cabin with Eulalie, but when day broke." he exclaimed in a deep sweet roics of affecting body of toy cherished wife that the sun hud melancholy, "the light rorealed to me in the passed from my skies for over, that the night as como, aud my spirit was to dwell alone in darkness.”
"But you had your daughter, sir,” said I genti
Oh, yes, oh yos." he answered. "God is good. He givoth and He taketh," He shook his head sighing
Wus.
I now began to think that the pain of his wife's death was one of his crazes, and ranged with his dream of the throne of Britain and the like. To help him on with his story I said:
The interior of the room was decorsed on one side with musketa, clubs, shields, spears, toma- Lawks, and bows and arrows, haug togather in very agreeable, dovicos. I wondered to witness such an accumulation of barbarous instruments of war. On the left of the room hang the prow of a canos, elaborately carved, represent fug some sort of animal with a human head. having the tongue pretended. It was pointel and bitlenus. f
afterwards heard that it
Tras supposed to have been a relic of a New Zealand canoe, which a ship picked up at sea, and which was washed overboard hiring heavy weather. with a vote of reverones, as though he named
Iter mother," said Captain Scott, speaking It had been found on the beach of the island.
After begging me lo sit and fall to, Captain saint, was the daughter of a Kanake queen. Scott seated himself under the hung up pro win and frolic in the water as though nature
All the women of thess islands in these se of the canoe.
D'ye kuow, Lily," says Captain Scott, intended that that olement should be as much where my dear one lies, that in the night 1
their habitation as the land. The gift lus
"Yos. I can live in the water almost the same as on the land," she answered, speaking with a foreign accent that made richer yet the rich quality of her voics.
not break
Theu, sir. I take it that the conveniences I notice in your house you saved from the wreck
That is so," he unawared. The vessel did up for many days, though we could not budgs her, do what we would. We brought kas, built that house. her cargo ashore, and my orow, who were Kans
It was erected close to
What a noble spirit thought I, and I felt that any admiration of her glowed in my face. Did the boat follow you easily ?" said L. "Ob, yes," she unswared. Tie as light as
the canoe."
This said, she asked me questions alot Eng land, if London was a fine city, and the country as pretty as hor island. I answered her truth fully but with discretion, as I did not wish, at all evouts at this early season, to say a word that was likely to risu a matinous thought in her.
She asked me if I know Linn. When I said "no," "Oh," she cries, "
"it is a glorious city "You remember it
Very well. was more than six years old when we were wrecked. The country all about it is as beautiful as this, and it has vineyards and sugar works and delightful plants. Some of the churches are magnificent with gold. I remember the church of St. Augustine and St. Dominic. and we used to attend Our Lady Mercedes."
"You are a Roman Catholio then "
to become of this young girl should her father die and leave her alone upon this island?" and before we reached the building my resolution to stay for her sake was firmly fixed, let Captain Seoul do what he might to get quit of me.
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My mother was and I am," she answered. Here Captain Scott stopped, and we came up ku with bin in silence.
I have been thinking," says be." that when you have a mind to leave the island, which I hop will not be soon, you cannot do better than make for Otaheite."
"Am I to believe," saya 1, "that no ship ever passos this isdand?"
cally unnavigated. If you are to wait for & slip you will live and die here," so saying he pushed on, and we marched with him.
Consider, sir, these waters continue practi-
Entalie was silent, but I observed that sho exiled when he spoke about my living and dying in the island.
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*I and my daughter," he answered.
You two only!" I exclaimed, startled by surprise into an indiscreet exhibition of it.
Woare threo," says he, with a look at his My story, says 1, "is easily fold. My wife's grave, for we stood in conversation in the father married au English lady, Helen Vin- garden.
Dover could look forth without seeing where she rests."
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