The Mate of the Vancouver — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ON BOARD THE VANCOUVER. 6 there, for though Will got too much to drink every two days or soon the passage out, nothing happened then that has any concern with the story. It was only when we got to Sandridge that the yarn begins, and it began in a way that rather took me aback; for though I had always thought Will a man who didn’t care much for women, or, at any rate, enough to marry one, our anchor hadn’t been down an hour before a lady came off ina boat. It was Will’s wife, as he explained to me ina rather shamefaced way when he in- troduced her, and a fine-looking woman she was—of a beautiful complexion with more | red in it than most Australians have, two { piercing black eyes, and a figure that would | have surprised you, it was so straight and | full. ‘ , She shook hands with me very firmly, and looked at me in such a way that it seemed she saw right through me. . “Tam very pleased to see you, Mr, Tice- f AS 3 . a WE Se olin 5 og AO Bike OAT Seles tee . o- ies : Zs i ‘ $ = peer oss Dope ee tte Speers oh PT tae = SS See eee a EF fae as Realy CP : : 7 Me “wate et) & ns “oe 3 by <4 AP . oy } . Dag ee Ser Ee td % ne . : * ‘ ae bs : . 2 ‘ =" eae Sete cee qths oe et AN te Se Pp AOS aR a SRE AG BY OEE RPTL RE Og Re SCT ed We Ss Wa Gs gS Taek bn tasty Sh) : te 2 : i ‘ be LA ts , , Pre . , . 3 ~~ TNE . “ @