However, we shall hear about that when we get there." "And what do you think will be the result of it all, Doctor Rae ?" "I think that undoubtedly, sooner or later, either the French or ourselves will be driven out.

Which it will be remains to be seen.

If we are expelled, the effect of our defeat is likely to operate disastrously at Calcutta, if not at Bombay.

The French will be regarded as a powerful people, whom it is necessary to conciliate, while we shall be treated as a nation of whom they need have no fear, and whom they can oppress accordingly.
"If we are successful, and absolutely obtain possession of the Carnatic, our trade will vastly increase, fresh posts and commands of all sorts will be established, and there will be a fine career open to you young fellows, in the service of the Company." After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, the ship encountered a series of very heavy gales, which drove her far out of her course up the eastern coast of Africa.

In the last gale her foremast was carried away, and she put in to a small island to refit.