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The bark had reached the galley A ladder was lowered, and, aided by the

sailors, the party ascended the deck The pilot gave the signal, the sails

were unfurled, the ship rocked for athe breeze,

and then it rapidly cleaved the waves

The cannon again booain the

acclamations of the crowd rent the air

The sounds had hardly died ahen the spectators, as if iht, immediately retired, and made all speed to reach the central part

of the city

The crohich left the wharf so precipitately soon arrived at the grand

square, but they found it already occupied by so cos, that it was impossible for them to penetrate it As far as the eye

could reach, there was a sea of heads; all the ere croith

women and even children; the roofs swarmed with curious spectators; the

iron balustrades seeht of the children who had

clined in the midst of the vast multitude Not a sound

was heard save the slow andof the death-bell, and at

intervals a screahtful, that those who listened to