CHAPTER XVI.

Clap on more sail, pursue, up with your fights, Give fire--she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! SHAKSPEARE. A very handsome brig, which, with several other vessels, was the property of Magnus Troil, the great Zetland Udaller, had received on board that Magnate himself, his two lovely daughters, and the facetious Claud Halcro, who, for friendship's sake chiefly, and the love of beauty proper to his poetical calling, attended them on their journey from Zetland t…