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"When I was down the coast, last week, so far as Littlehampton," said a stout young man in the corner, "a very coorous thing happened me, leastways by my own opinion, and glad shall I be to have the judgment of Cappen Zeb consarning it. There come in there a queer-rigged craft of some sixty ton from Halvers, desiring to set up trade again, or to do some smoogling, or spying perhaps.
The storm had scarce abated when a strange ship poked her jib-boom across the entrance to the lagoon, followed by queer-rigged black sails. "A pirate!" said Jean. But Sieur de Radisson only puckered his brows, shifted position so that the St. Pierre could give a broadside, and said nothing. Then came the strangest part of it. Another ship poked her nose across the other side of the entrance.
The first thing our eyes lighted on when the sun rose in flaming darts through the gray haze of dawn was a half-built fort on an island in mid-river. At the water side lay a queer-rigged brigantine, rocking to the swell of the tide. Here, then, was cause of that firing heard across the marsh on the lower river. "'Tis the pirate ship we saw on the high sea," muttered Godefroy, rubbing his eyes.
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