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Privateering, having booty as its sole motive, rapidly tends to indiscriminate robbery, if not held strictly responsible by the country using it; and the remote, extensive, and secluded shores of Cuba, Haïti, and the South American coast defied the careless supervision of the weak Spanish Government.
The business became unprofitable for a time until the enterprising Lafittes thinkers bethought them of a corrective "privateering". Thereupon the United States Government set a price upon their heads.
He seemed to be turning this over in his mind, and presently he asked "And they want you to go privateering?" "I don't say they want me to. It's I want to go. They are willing at all events they don't object." "And why do you go against their wishes?" "Well, it's this way, Monsieur Torode. I've been four voyages to the West and there's no great things in it.
He alluded to the recent attempt by some of the governments of Europe, to engraft upon National law a prohibition against privateering.
A month ago a choice Italian marble table which the famous knight commander, Don Priamo Febrer, had brought back from one of his privateering expeditions had still stood here.
This is the return she gets for what may be termed her privateering experiences, and there are numbers of creatures, whom it were sacrilege to call men, who make a regular business of becoming acquainted with married women for this special purpose.
Some drank themselves to death; some took to privateering; and many took to having visions and dreaming dreams; and, in the midst of it, Shakspeare rushed in a fury to his pen, and wrote play after play very noble, very bright, very wonderful but mad decidedly mad the whole time.
In the case of the captured ships he alleged that they were sailing under French passes, and he protested that his privateering commission justified him, and this contention was not disproven.
Few voyagers have added so much to our knowledge of distant parts of the world, and the accuracy of his remarks has been acknowledged by all those who have visited the countries he describes. His conduct must not be judged by the opinions of the present day, when even privateering is looked down upon and condemned by all right thinking men.
The continuance of such a course for even a short time would suffice entirely to ruin Caere, Ostia, Neapolis, Tarentum, and Syracuse, while the Carthaginians easily consoled themselves for the loss of the tribute of Sicily with the contributions which they levied and the rich prizes of their privateering.
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