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It was at the close of a sultry day in June, that the passenger vessel, ‘Star of the North,' coasted the island of Martinique on her way to Barbadoes. The sea was calm as a summer lake, and an ominous stillness reigned in the surrounding atmosphere that made the words of a song, trolled out by a free, manly voice from the forecastle, distinctly heard in every part of the vessel,-
‘Wherever you be, by land or sea, / Why, set your heart at rest; / For you may be sure, come kill or cure / Whatever is, is best!'