Alas! that any of my nation Should ever so foul disparaged be.

Suddenly the games were suspended, the cricketers threw down their bats, and the croqueters their mallets[…]

From this port the ten destined for Monterey sailed on the packet-boat San Antonio, on the 2d of January of the year 1771, and after fifty-two days of rather trying voyage, on account of many bad storms, they arrived without incident at the port of San Diego on the 12th of March.

I clutched at a gun - my pockets were full of cartridges - and, parting the thorn bushes at the gate of our zareba, quickly slipped out.