Perils Afloat and Brigands Ashore

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 42 CHAPTER IV. A NARROW ESCAPE. THE anchor was barely let go than the yacht was surrounded by shore-boats of every description, whose occupants were all bawling out together, and producing such a babel of sounds that the ladies were fain to stop their ears. Most of the fellows were boatmen anxious to take us ashore. Some were touters of the hotels, and there were not a few who offered all sorts of articles for sale. But we would have none of them, much to their disgust, for two of the yacht's boats were lowered to convey our party to land, and whilst the luggage, which had been already prepared, was placed in one of them, the whole of the party, with the exception of most of the vessel's crew, got into the other. On reaching the landing-place the hubbub was renewed, and even intensified. There was no one to keep order even if the rabble had been inclined to obey, and the ladies looked terribly alarmed as our sailors nearly got to blows with the swarm of porters who rushed upon our luggage, one running off with a hat-box, another with an umbrella, and then all clamouring for payment when Sir Walter and Mr. Mirtle, assisted by four tars, subsequently recovered their belongings. A couple of coaches were hired to convey us to our hotel, and we managed after some delay to get out of the clutches of the dirty, noisy throng, all of us, I am quite sure, concurring in Sir Walter's opinion,The Interpreter. 43 who, as he wiped his forehead after his exertions, exclaimed :? " A precious set of wretches !" The Alameda, or public walk, on which the hotel was situated, looked bright and pretty on that summer afternoon, planted as it was with trees, and dotted with marble seats, busts, and statues. The little room assigned to myself looked upon it, and I found plenty of...

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