rrived steamer, a cry came from the people on shore that another
ship was in sight. An hour later a black-painted, unobtrusive-looking
steamer came slowly into the bay and dropped anchor. She looked like a
collier, and flew the red ensign of England; but Henry knew her. She was
the _Legaspi_, Spanish gunboat from Manila, and had chased him from the
Philippines. As her cable rattled through her hawsepipes, down went the
red ensign and up went the Spanish colours, and a boat full of armed men
dashed alongside the _Nouvelle Bretagne_, and in another five minutes
Captain Henry was a prisoner, handcuffed, and on his way to the warship.
What he had done at Manila was a daring deed enough, and is a story in
itself, and nothing much to his discredit. His ship had been prevented
from putting to sea by the Spanish authorities, and Henry, who had many
sick on board, and was greatly harassed in mind, suddenly slipped his
cable and steamed off, although there was a Spanish guard on board.
These he landed on the coast of Luzon.

That evening the commander of the _Legaspi_ called the Spanish emigrants
together and addressed them. 'The colony is a failure; the French,
Italian and Spanish Governments have repudiated it. Those of you who
like to return with the _Legaspi_ to Manila can do so; those who do not
may remain here, to die of starvation or be eaten by the savages.'

Next morning the _Legaspi_ steamed out of Liki Liki Bay with the
_Nouvelle Bretagne_ in tow, taking; all the Spanish colonists with her.
Then, to the aid of the despairing French and Italian colonists, came
one Tom Farrell, an English trader on the Duke of York Island. He gave
them provisions, advanced them money, and treated them well, taking care
to get possession of the _Genil_ and the barque _Marquis de Rays_.
The _Genil_ he sent to Australia under command of an English captain
(Rabardy was dead by then, and his dying words to the writer of
this sketch, as he grasped his hand for the last time, were, 'I have
tried--and failed. I had not one competent officer with me to help me to
maintain my authority or shoot some of the ruffians who have ruined the
expedition'). Her unfortunate passengers were generously treated by the
New South Wales Government, who settled many of them on the Richmond
River, in the northern portion of the colony. Here they founded a
prosperous little settlement, and are to this day happy and contented,
and thank their stars that they left a s