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Drop it into his ear , and he 'll gallop like a pig in a storm . -- Fisherman , you throw your lash as if you were trout-fishing : here , give us your whip , and I 'll start him -- an old black devil ! Now , bowson , mind how you double Cape Horn ! '' In the next moment Cape Horn was doubled : one after one the flying squadron of hearse and chaises , which still continued to scud along like clouds before the wind , whirled round a point of rock and vanished like a hurricane : in a few minutes the flying pedestrians had followed them : the hubbub of shouts , halloos , curses , and travelling echoes , were hushed abruptly as in the silence of the grave : the wild spectacle of black draperies and fierce faces had fled like an exhalation or a delirium : all were locked up from the eye and the ear by the lofty barriers of another valley , and Bertram , who had lingered behind -- and now found himself left alone in a solitary valley with a silence as profound under the broad light of three o'clock in the afternoon as elsewhere at midnight , -- felt so much perplexed by this abrupt transition and the tumultuous succession of incidents , that for some time he was almost disposed to doubt whether Captain le Harnois , and the funeral of Captain le Harnois , and every thing that related to Captain le Harnois were not some aerial pageant bred out of those melancholy vapors which are often attributed to the solemn impressions of mountain solitudes . -LSB- Footnote 1 : Sed non ante datur telluris operta subire , Auricomos quam quis decerpaerit arbore f -LSB- oe -RSB- tus . _ Æn . _ vi .