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Ayrton
gave
an
account
of
the
Britannia
'S
voyage
across
the
Pacific
.
Mary
knew
most
of
it
before
,
as
news
of
the
ship
had
come
regularly
up
to
the
month
of
May
,
1862
.
In
the
course
of
the
year
Harry
Grant
had
touched
at
all
the
principal
ports
.
He
had
been
to
the
Hebrides
,
to
New
Guinea
,
New
Zealand
,
and
New
Caledonia
,
and
had
succeeded
in
finding
an
important
point
on
the
western
coast
of
Papua
,
where
the
establishment
of
a
Scotch
colony
seemed
to
him
easy
,
and
its
prosperity
certain
.
A
good
port
on
the
Molucca
and
Philippine
route
must
attract
ships
,
especially
when
the
opening
of
the
Suez
Canal
would
have
supplanted
the
Cape
route
.
Harry
Grant
was
one
of
those
who
appreciated
the
great
work
of
M.
De
Lesseps
,
and
would
not
allow
political
rivalries
to
interfere
with
international
interests
.
After
reconnoitering
Papua
,
the
Britannia
went
to
provision
herself
at
Callao
,
and
left
that
port
on
the
30th
of
May
,
1862
,
to
return
to
Europe
by
the
Indian
Ocean
and
the
Cape
.
Three
weeks
afterward
,
his
vessel
was
disabled
by
a
fearful
storm
in
which
they
were
caught
,
and
obliged
to
cut
away
the
masts
.
A
leak
sprang
in
the
hold
,
and
could
not
be
stopped
.
The
crew
were
too
exhausted
to
work
the
pumps
,
and
for
eight
days
the
Britannia
was
tossed
about
in
the
hurricane
like
a
shuttlecock
.
She
had
six
feet
of
water
in
her
hold
,
and
was
gradually
sinking
.
The
boats
had
been
all
carried
away
by
the
tempest
;
death
stared
them
in
the
face
,
when
,
on
the
night
of
the
22d
of
June
,
as
Paganel
had
rightly
supposed
,
they
came
in
sight
of
the
eastern
coast
of
Australia
.
The
ship
soon
neared
the
shore
,
and
presently
dashed
violently
against
it
.
Ayrton
was
swept
off
by
a
wave
,
and
thrown
among
the
breakers
,
where
he
lost
consciousness
.
When
he
recovered
,
he
found
himself
in
the
hands
of
natives
,
who
dragged
him
away
into
the
interior
of
the
country
.
Since
that
time
he
had
never
heard
the
Britannia
's
name
mentioned
,
and
reasonably
enough
came
to
the
conclusion
that
she
had
gone
down
with
all
hands
off
the
dangerous
reefs
of
Twofold
Bay
.
This
ended
Ayrton
's
recital
,
and
more
than
once
sorrowful
exclamations
were
evoked
by
the
story
.
The
Major
could
not
,
in
common
justice
,
doubt
its
authenticity
.
The
sailor
was
then
asked
to
narrate
his
own
personal
history
,
which
was
short
and
simple
enough
.
He
had
been
carried
by
a
tribe
of
natives
four
hundred
miles
north
of
the
37th
parallel
.
He
spent
a
miserable
existence
there
--
not
that
he
was
ill-treated
,
but
the
natives
themselves
lived
miserably
.
He
passed
two
long
years
of
painful
slavery
among
them
,
but
always
cherished
in
his
heart
the
hope
of
one
day
regaining
his
freedom
,
and
watching
for
the
slightest
opportunity
that
might
turn
up
,
though
he
knew
that
his
flight
would
be
attended
with
innumerable
dangers
.
At
length
one
night
in
October
,
1864
,
he
managed
to
escape
the
vigilance
of
the
natives
,
and
took
refuge
in
the
depths
of
immense
forests
.
For
a
whole
month
he
subsisted
on
roots
,
edible
ferns
and
mimosa
gums
,
wandering
through
vast
solitudes
,
guiding
himself
by
the
sun
during
the
day
and
by
the
stars
at
night
.
He
went
on
,
though
often
almost
despairingly
,
through
bogs
and
rivers
,
and
across
mountains
,
till
he
had
traversed
the
whole
of
the
uninhabited
part
of
the
continent
,
where
only
a
few
bold
travelers
have
ventured
;
and
at
last
,
in
an
exhausted
and
all
but
dying
condition
,
he
reached
the
hospitable
dwelling
of
Paddy
O'Moore
,
where
he
said
he
had
found
a
happy
home
in
exchange
for
his
labor
.
"
And
if
Ayrton
speaks
well
of
me
,
"
said
the
Irish
settler
,
when
the
narrative
ended
,
"
I
have
nothing
but
good
to
say
of
him
.
He
is
an
honest
,
intelligent
fellow
and
a
good
V.
IV
Verne
worker
;
and
as
long
as
he
pleases
,
Paddy
O'Moore
's
house
shall
be
his
.
"
Ayrton
thanked
him
by
a
gesture
,
and
waited
silently
for
any
fresh
question
that
might
be
put
to
him
,
though
he
thought
to
himself
that
he
surely
must
have
satisfied
all
legitimate
curiosity
.
What
could
remain
to
be
said
that
he
had
not
said
a
hundred
times
already
.
