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Half
an
hour
afterwards
,
Ayrton
,
without
having
been
either
seen
or
heard
,
arrived
at
the
ship
and
caught
hold
of
the
main-chains
.
He
took
breath
,
then
,
hoisting
himself
up
,
he
managed
to
reach
the
extremity
of
the
cutwater
.
There
were
drying
several
pairs
of
sailors
'
trousers
.
He
put
on
a
pair
.
Then
settling
himself
firmly
,
he
listened
.
They
were
not
sleeping
on
board
the
brig.
On
the
contrary
,
they
were
talking
,
singing
,
laughing
.
And
these
were
the
sentences
,
accompanied
with
oaths
,
which
principally
struck
Ayrton
:
--
"
Our
brig
is
a
famous
acquisition
.
"
"
She
sails
well
,
and
merits
her
name
of
the
'
Speedy
.
'
"
"
She
would
show
all
the
navy
of
Norfolk
a
clean
pair
of
heels
.
"
"
Hurrah
for
her
captain
!
"
"
Hurrah
for
Bob
Harvey
!
"
What
Ayrton
felt
when
he
overheard
this
fragment
of
conversation
may
be
understood
when
it
is
known
that
in
this
Bob
Harvey
he
recognized
one
of
his
old
Australian
companions
,
a
daring
sailor
,
who
had
continued
his
criminal
career
.
Bob
Harvey
had
seized
,
on
the
shores
of
Norfolk
Island
this
brig
,
which
was
loaded
with
arms
,
ammunition
,
utensils
,
and
tools
of
all
sorts
,
destined
for
one
of
the
Sandwich
Islands
.
All
his
gang
had
gone
on
board
,
and
pirates
after
having
been
convicts
,
these
wretches
,
more
ferocious
than
the
Malays
themselves
,
scoured
the
Pacific
,
destroying
vessels
,
and
massacring
their
crews
.
The
convicts
spoke
loudly
,
they
recounted
their
deeds
,
drinking
deeply
at
the
same
time
,
and
this
is
what
Ayrton
gathered
.
The
actual
crew
of
the
"
Speedy
"
was
composed
solely
of
English
prisoners
,
escaped
from
Norfolk
Island
.
Here
it
may
be
well
to
explain
what
this
island
was
.
In
29deg
2
'
south
latitude
,
and
165deg
42
'
east
longitude
,
to
the
east
of
Australia
,
is
found
a
little
island
,
six
miles
in
circumference
,
overlooked
by
Mount
Pitt
,
which
rises
to
a
height
of
1,100
feet
above
the
level
of
the
sea
.
This
is
Norfolk
Island
,
once
the
seat
of
an
establishment
in
which
were
lodged
the
most
intractable
convicts
from
the
English
penitentiaries
.
They
numbered
500
,
under
an
iron
discipline
,
threatened
with
terrible
punishments
,
and
were
guarded
by
150
soldiers
,
and
150
employed
under
the
orders
of
the
governor
.
It
would
be
difficult
to
imagine
a
collection
of
greater
ruffians
.
Sometimes
,
--
although
very
rarely
,
--
notwithstanding
the
extreme
surveillance
of
which
they
were
the
object
,
many
managed
to
escape
,
and
seizing
vessels
which
they
surprised
,
they
infested
the
Polynesian
Archipelagoes
.
