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Morrel is utterly ruined; he has lost five ships in two years, has suffered by the bankruptcy of three large houses, and his only hope now is in that very Pharaon which poor Dantès commanded, and which is expected from the Indies with a cargo of cochineal and indigo.

He sold all his flock, invested it in a cargo of dates, and set sail.

To this question the smugglers replied that, although successful in landing their cargo in safety, they had scarcely done so when they received intelligence that a guard-ship had just quitted the port of Toulon and was crowding all sail towards them.

The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt.