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 had better been in bed sick of a fever, than been guilty of that unprovoked violence. 'Brutal comme un Provencal,' is a proverb even in your own country; I would not wish to have such a confirmation of the truth of it. But there are my keys, in case another gale should come, choose out of my trunks the one that, according to your idea, and theirs, is likeliest to have a dead man in it, and then take another; and the first one you find, throw them all overboard. I forced him to open two of the chests, and, lucky it was, as I believe, for off the island of Malta we had another violent gale, but which did us no damage. At last, after a passage of about three weeks, we landed happily at Marseilles.

Nullum numen abest si sit prudentis; sed Te, Nos facimus, Fortuna Deum, calique locomus. JUVEN.