eau of Fonseca, and made a
gift of it to my dear wife. I was pleased at having the means of
raising her again to that rank in society, which she had quitted for my
sake. For some years we lived happily, although we had no children.
After that, events happened which again sent me to sea. Such, your
highness, is the history of my Fourth Voyage.

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"Well," observed the pacha, "I never heard of so large a snake before;
did you, Mustapha?"

"Never, your highness; but travellers see strange things. What is to be
the extent of your highness's bounty?"

"Give him ten pieces of gold," said the pacha, rising from the throne,
and waddling behind the curtain.

Mustapha told out the sequins. "Selim, if I might advise you, it would
please his highness better, if you continued more at sea, and dealt a
little more in the marvellous. That wife of yours, Cerise as you call
her, is rather a bore."

"Well, I'll get rid of her to-morrow; but I can tell you, vizier, that I
deserve all my pay, for its rather fatiguing work--besides, my
conscience."

"Holy Prophet! hear him--his conscience! go, hypocrite, drown it in wine
to-night, and it will be dead tomorrow; and don't forget to kill your
wife."

"Allow me to observe, that you Turks have very little taste;
nevertheless, I will get rid of her after your own fashion, for she
shall go to the bottom of the sea--Bashem ustun, on my head be it."

VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER FOUR.

The next morning the pacha hurried over the business of the day, for
Mustapha had intimated that the renegade considered his fifth voyage to
be one of great marvels. Selim was introduced as before, and commenced
the narrative.

FIFTH VOYAGE OF HUCKABACK.

Your highness may be surprised, that being in the possession of wealth,
rank, and my charming Cerise, I should have again ventured upon the
treacherous ocean. Of course your highness has heard of the revolution
which took place in France, and all the horrors which attended it.

"France! Yes, I believe there is a country of that name; I can't say
that I ever heard of the revolution. Holy Prophet! but these people
have strange ideas," continued the pacha to the vizier; "to imagine that
we must know or care about what is going on in their barbarous
countries. You may proceed, Huckaback."

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