"] On Monday, the 5th of July, with a leading gale and the flood of tide, a Spanish fleet of thirty-six sail, consisting of three ships of twenty guns, two large snows, three schooners, four sloops, and the rest half-galleys, with landsmen on board, entered the harbor; and, after exchanging a brisk fire with the fort, for four hours, passed all the batteries and shipping, proceeded up the river.

I had been belting native crews on trading schooners between the Carolines and the Marquesas, and when ashore I had little opportunity for speaking to a woman of the type of Edith Herndon.

He closed the door again and, taking a deep breath, set off towards the life and bustle of the Two Schooners.

[Illustration: "He set off towards the life and bustle of the Two Schooners."] CHAPTER X Time failed to soften the captain's ideas concerning his son's engagement, and all mention of the subject in the house was strictly forbidden.

As he passed the Kybirds' he shivered, and it was not until he had consumed a pint or two of the strongest brew procurable at the Two Schooners that he began to regain some of his old self-esteem.

Other people regarded the affair as a joke, and he sat gazing round-eyed one evening at the Two Schooners at the insensible figures of three men who had each had a modest half-pint at his expense.

Then he made a bee-line for the Two Schooners.

FRÉMONTMY FATHER AND HIS FAMILYINTEREST AWAKENED IN THE NEW TERRITORYFORMATION OF THE FIRST EMIGRANT PARTY FROM ILLINOIS TO CALIFORNIAPREPARATIONS FOR THE JOURNEYTHE STARTON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CIVILIZATION CHAPTER II IN THE TERRITORY OF KANSASPRAIRIE SCHOONERS FROM SANTA FÉ TO INDEPENDENCE, MO.LIFE en routeTHE BIG BLUECAMP GOVERNMENTTHE Blue Rover CHAPTER III IN THE HAUNTS OF THE PAWNEESLETTERS OF MRS.

[Illustration: OUR STEALTHY FOES] CHAPTER II IN THE TERRITORY OF KANSASPRAIRIE SCHOONERS FROM SANTA FÉ TO INDEPENDENCE, MO.LIFE en routeTHE BIG BLUECAMP GOVERNMENTTHE Blue Rover.

We little folk sat in the wagons with our dolls, watching the huge white-covered "prairie schooners" coming from Santa Fé to Independence for merchandise.

The dangerous bar of the port, now partially deprived of its buoys, and with its main channel rendered perilous by the hulks of sunken schooners, revealed itself plainly, half a mile ahead of us, in a great crescent of yellow water, plainly distinguishable from the steel-gray of the outer ocean.

Deterred from the Ship Channel by the sunken schooners, and from Maffitt's Channel by the fate of the Columbia, we tried the Middle Channel, and glided over the bar without accident.

The difficulty of reducing the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa led to the collection of some gun-boats, a couple of sloops of war, and two or three armed schooners.

A lantern flashed on one of the big schooners.

We lay in the midst of the mackerel fishery, with small schooners anchored all around us.

The two schooners spoke each other about twelve o'clock, but the Abraham had no intelligence to impart.

One by one he looked at all the motor launches, the little regatta skiffs, the fishing barks, and the coast schooners anchored in the quiet harbor of the island dell' Ova.

Our voyage down the river was without incident, and we reached Green Bay just as all the place was astir in the expectation of the arrival of one of Mr. Newbery's schooners.

A piratical station was taken in the Island of Cuba by the U.S. schooners of war, Greyhound and Beagle.

The two schooners were then warped in, when they discharged several broadsides, and covered the landing of the boats.

About forty pirates escaped to the heights, but many were supposed to have been killed from the fire of the schooners, as well as from the men who landed.

In the menagerie tent Bud and his friends looked thirstily upon the cool, pink "schooners" of lemonade, and finally, when they had spent a few blissful moments with the monkeys and had enjoyed a last, long, lingering look at the elephants, they dragged themselves unwillingly away into the commonplace of sunshine and trees and blue sky.

Vessels in the roads can have it brought off in bulk in lighters or schooners at a cost of 50 cents a ton.

Some of these are navigable 2 or 3 leagues from their mouths for schooners and small coasting vessels.

A single ship, lying at the wharves, and two or three brigs and schooners at anchor in the rivers, composed the whole show of sea vessels then in port.