life-boats was picked up by an English schooner, and her men who were freezing and starving were fetched to England and stood up before Queen Elizabeth, being great curiosities. And then they told their story, and that’s how Queen Bess got the notion in ’er head to send Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake out exploring and colonizing on the western continent. But what became of the other life-boat no man saw. She must have gone down close upon those Azore Islands, for one of her passengers—a French Huguenot—swam to the shore and waited for some boat to come along and pick him up. He hailed and called and danced day after day and month after month, but no boat came near enough to notice him, until finally he died after standing on the edge of that shore and waving his hands and yelling at the top of his lungs for seven years. But having more power as a ghost than he had had when he was only a man, he just kept right on standing there,
