CHAPTER 14

Three years have passed—The new vessel—What is agreed on— Prosperity of the colony—The dockyard—Cold of the southern hemisphere—Washing linen—Mount Franklin. Three years had passed away since the escape of the prisoners from Richmond, and how often during those three years had they spoken of their country, always present in their thoughts! They had no doubt that the civil war was at an end, and to them it appeared impossible that the just cause of the North had not triumphed. But what had been the inciden…