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130 In the pale, sad light of the Northern day Seen by the blanketed Montagnais,
 * Or squaw, in her small kyack,
 * Crossing the spectre’s track.

On the deck a maiden wrings her hands; Her likeness kneels on the gray coast sands;
 * One in her wild despair,
 * And one in the trance of prayer.

She flits before no earthly blast, The red sign fluttering from her mast,
 * Over the solemn seas,
 * The ghost of the schooner Breeze!

The following is a copy of the warrant issued by Major Waldron, of Dover, in 1662. The Quakers, as was their wont, prophesied against him, and saw, as they supposed, the fulfilment of their prophecy when, many years after, he was killed by the Indians.

You, and every one of you, are required, in the King’s Majesty’s name, to take these vagabond Quakers, Anne Colman, Mary Tomkins, and Alice Ambrose, and make them fast to the cart’s tail, and driving the cart through your several towns, to whip them upon their naked backs not exceeding ten stripes apiece on each of them, in each town; and so to convey them from constable to constable till they are out of this jurisdiction, as you will answer it at your peril; and this shall be your warrant.

Dated at Dover, December 22, 1662.