She wer called the _Blenden Hall_, an' I ken call to mind, though it must be nigh fifty year ago, the hull yarn as to how she wer lost." "Do you ?" said Fritz.

"I should like to hear about it." "Waall, here goes, I reckon.

You see as how there wer several ladies aboard, an' it wer the plight they wer put in thet made me 'member it all.

It wer in the month of July thet it happen'd, an' the vessel, as I said afore, wer bound to Bombay.

The weather bein' thick an' the master funky about his latitudes, findin' himself by observation near these islands, he detarmined to look for 'em, in order to get a sight of 'em an' correct his reck'nin'.