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His shipmates did as he had bidden them do; they laid him in a coffin, and shot it overboard. There was a man named Grim, son of Thorir Kettlesson Keel-fare, of noble kin and wealthy. He was in Kveldulf's ship; he had been an old friend of both father and son, and a companion both of them and of Thorolf, for which reason he had incurred the king's anger. He now took command of the ship after Kveldulf was dead.
Then Egil stood for Norway, and when he came to land sailed with all speed into the Firths. He heard these tidings, that lord Thorir was dead, and Arinbjorn had taken inheritance after him, and was made a baron. Egil went to Arinbjorn and got there a good welcome. Arinbjorn asked him to stay there. Egil accepted this, had his ship set up, and his crew lodged. But Arinbjorn received Egil and twelve men; they stayed with him through the winter.
Now Hadd and Frodi saw Bergonund's fall, and ran thither. Egil turned to meet them. At Frodi he threw his halberd, which, piercing the shield, went into his breast and out at his back. At once he fell back dead. Then, taking his sword, Egil turned against Hadd, and they exchanged but few blows ere Hadd fell. Just then the herd-boys chanced to come up. Egil said to them: 'Watch you here by Onund your master and his friends, that no beast or bird tear their bodies.'
Then Egil rode away till he came to Lambstead, where he was made heartily welcome; he was to be there three nights. That same evening that Egil left home, Skallagrim had a horse saddled. He then rode out just when others were going to bed. When he went away, he bore before him on his knees a very large chest; but under his arm he carried a brazen kettle. It has been since held for certain that he let down one or both into Krum's bog-hole, and dropped a large stone slab atop of them. Skallagrim came home about midnight, and then went to his place and lay down in his clothes. But in the morning, when it was light and people were dressed, there sat Skallagrim forward on the seat's edge, already dead, and so stiff that they could not straighten him nor move him, though they tried all they could.
Then a man was put on horseback, who galloped off as hard as he might to Lambstead. At once he sought Egil, and told him these tidings. Then Egil took his weapons and clothes and rode home, reaching Borg by eventide. And at once on dismounting he went in, and to the passage that was round the hall, with doors leading from the passage to the seats inside. Egil went on to the chief seat, and took Skallagrim by the shoulders, and forced him backwards, and laid him down in the seat, and rendered then the services to the dead. Then Egil bade them take digging tools and break open the wall on the south side. When this was done, then Egil supported the head and others the feet of Skallagrim; and so they bore him athwart the house out through the breach in the wall just made. Then they bore him immediately down to Nausta-ness. There for the night a tent was set over the body; but in the morning with flood-tide Skallagrim was put on a boat and rowed out to Digra-ness. There Egil had a mound raised on the point of the ness. Therein was laid Skallagrim, with his horse, his weapons, and his smithy tools. It is not told that any valuables were laid in the mound beside him.
Said Arinbjorn: 'No one will call Eric a greater man for slaying a yeoman's son, a foreigner, who has freely come into his power. But if the king wishes to achieve greatness hereby, then will I help him in this, so that these tidings shall be thought more worthy of record; for I and Egil will now back each other, so that we must both be met at once. Thou wilt then, O king, dearly buy the life of Egil, when we be all laid dead on the field, I and my followers. Far other treatment should I have expected of thee, than that thou wouldst prefer seeing me laid dead on the earth to granting me the boon I crave of one man's life.'
But the Vermians who escaped took their horses, and dragged themselves from the wood eastwards to inhabited parts. There they got their wounds bound. Procuring companions, they made their way to the earl, and told him of their misadventure. They told how both the Ulfs had fallen, twenty-five men were dead, and but five escaped with life, and they all wounded and bruised. The earl then asked what were the tidings of Egil and his comrades. They answered: 'We know not for sure how much they were wounded; but full boldly did they set on us when we were eight and they four; then we fled. Five reached the wood, but three perished; yet, for all we could see, Egil and his men were as fresh as ever.'
After they were parted Thorstein sought for Grim. And they found him sore wounded, while Steinar's son lay there by him dead. And when Thorstein leapt on his horse, then Steinar called after him, 'You run now, Thorstein the white.' Thorstein answered, 'You shall run further ere a week be out.'
In the autumn following Egil fell sick of the sickness whereof he died. When he was dead, then Grim had Egil dressed in goodly raiment, and carried down to Tjalda-ness; there a sepulchral mound was made, and in it was Egil laid with his weapons and his raiment.
One of our men was whipped through the fleet for stealing somedollars from a merchant ship he was assisting to bring into port.It was a dreadful sight: the unfortunate sufferer tied down on theboat and rowed from ship to ship, getting an equal number of lashesat the side of each vessel from a fresh man. The poor wretch, todeaden his sufferings, had drunk a whole bottle of rum a littlebefore the time of punishment. When he had only two portions to getof his punishment, the captain of the ship perceived he was tipsyand immediately ordered the rest of the punishment to be delayeduntil he was sober. He was rowed back to the Surprise, hisback swelled like a pillow, black and blue. Some sheets of thickblue paper were steeped in vinegar and laid to his back. Before heseemed insensible. Now his shrieks rent the air. When better he wassent to the ship, where his tortures were stopped and againrenewed.
When the coach reached Newcastle, I soon procured anotherconveyance to Edinburgh and was at Leith before the vessel. Whenshe arrived I went on board and found all safe. I then went toBorrowstownness, but found my father had been dead for some time.This was a great disappointment and grief to me. I wished I hadbeen at home to have received his last blessing and advice, butthere was no help. He died full of years; and that I may be as wellprepared when I shall be called hence is my earnest wish. Aftervisiting his grave and spending a few days with my friends, Ibecame uneasy at not hearing from Williams. I waited for threeweeks; then, losing all patience, I set off myself to see how theland lay. I took leave of home once more, with a good deal of moneyin my pocket, as I had been almost a miser at home, keeping all forthe marriage, should I succeed.
We were much in want of oil for our lamps. The sharks abounding,we baited a hook with a piece of salt pork and caught the largest Iever saw in any sea. It was a female, nineteen feet long. It tookall hands to hoist her on board; her weight made the vessel heel.When she was cut up we took forty-eight young ones out of herbelly, eighteen inches long. We saw them go into her mouth aftershe was hooked. The hook was fixed to a chain attached to ourmainbrace, or we never would have kept her. It was evening when shesnapped the bait; we hauled the head just above the surface, theswell washing over it. We let her remain thus all night and she wasquite dead in the morning. There were in her stomach four hogs,four full-grown turtle, beside the young ones. Her liver, the onlypart we wanted, filled a tierce.
While in Prince William's Sound the boat went on an excursion toSnug Corner Cove at the top of the Sound. She discovered theNootka, Captain Mairs, in a most distressing situation from thescurvy. There were only the captain and two men free from disease.Two and twenty Lascars had died through the course of the winter.They had caused their own distress by their inordinate use ofspirits on Christmas eve. They could not bury their own dead. Theywere only dragged a short distance from the ship and left upon theice. They had muskets fixed upon the capstan and man-ropes thatwent down to the cabin, that when any of the natives attempted tocome on board they might fire them off to scare them. They had alarge Newfoundland dog whose name was Towser, who alone kept theship clear of the Indians. He lay day and night upon the ice beforethe cabin window, and would not allow the Indians to go into theship. When the natives came to barter they would cry, 'LallyTowser,' and make him a present of a skin before they began totrade with Captain Mairs, who lowered from the window his barter,and in the same way received their furs.
The Chinese, I really believe, eat anything there is life in.Neptune was constantly on shore with me at the tent. Every night hecaught less or more rats. He never eat them, but laid them downwhen dead at the tent door. In the morning the Chinese gavevegetables for them and were as well pleased as I was at theexchange.
When we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wifefrom among the convicts, they nothing loath. The girl with whom Ilived, for I was as bad in this point as the others, was namedSarah Whitlam. She was a native of Lincoln, a girl of a modestreserved turn, as kind and true a creature as ever lived. I courtedher for a week and upwards, and would have married her on the spothad there been a clergyman on board. She had been banished for amantle she had borrowed from an acquaintance. Her friend prosecutedher for stealing it, and she was transported for seven years. I hadfixed my fancy upon her from the moment I knocked the rivet out ofher irons upon my anvil, and as firmly resolved to bring her backto England when her time was out, my lawful wife, as ever I didintend anything in my life. She bore me a son in our voyage out.What is become of her, whether she is dead or alive, I know not.That I do not is no fault of mine, as my narrative will show. 59ce067264
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