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 300 THE EMBAEKATION. CHAP, that the whole flotilla would be clo^fred by the xvin slowness of the sailing-vessels in which the Mar- shal's troops were embarked, and, accordingly, the fate of the enterprise then appeared more than ever dependent upon the accidents of weather. Marshal St Arnaud sjrew restless.