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Wherefore have all other adventurers sought the prize in vain but that I might win it, and make it a symbol of the glories of our lofty line? And never, on the diadem of the White Mountains, did the Great Carbuncle hold a place half so honored as is reserved for it in the hall of the De Veres! 'It is a noble thought, said the Cynic, with an obsequious sneer.
On the 2nd April, Francis Drake sailed from Plymouth with four ships belonging to the Queen, and with twenty-four furnished by the merchants of London, and other private individuals. It was a bold buccaneering expedition combining chivalrous enterprise with the chance of enormous profit which was most suited to the character of English adventurers at that expanding epoch.
Both of these, one of whom was Mr. Leach, carried three small balls of marline, to the end of each of which was attached a cod-hook, the barb being filed off in order to prevent its being caught. By means of these hooks the balls were fastened to the jackets of the adventurers. Two others stood ready at the foot of the main and mizzen riggings.
"I suppose we shall have to stop and dine with him," said Fred, with a sly wink at me. "You surely don't think of such a thing?" demanded Smith, with horror depicted upon his face. "Why, you don't pretend to say that the governor is any better than us poor adventurers?" asked Fred.
'Twas ever thus," and Jimsy, with an assumption of wounded dignity, strode off to where old Mr. Bell was already busy over the cooking fire. The midday meal passed off more brightly than might have been expected considering the circumstances in which the adventurers found themselves. "At all events, we can't starve an the desert," Jimsy, "even if we do run short of water."
When those adventurers arrived upon any unknown coast, their first inquiry was always if there was any gold to be found there; and according to the information which they received concerning this particular, they determined either to quit the country or to settle in it.
Those early explorers and adventurers were mostly brave, enterprising, and, after their fashion, pious men.
She had had to remove her husband by murder for fear of being removed herself. She continued to be surrounded by a rabble of unscrupulous adventurers and intriguers. Her only safety lay in becoming a patriotic Russian, and in seeking the support of Russian sentiment and Russian opinion.
For fully two miles the adventurers pursued their devious course through the tropical forest, sometimes groping their way cautiously through the deep green twilight, and anon almost blinded by a sudden glare of dazzling sunshine, as they emerged into an open space caused either by fire or a windfall, and all the time Dyer kept up the curious cry, at frequent intervals, which was the call of the Cimarrones.
To outsiders, immigrants, adventurers, it was easy, but the old Puritan nature rebelled against change. The reason it gave was forcible. The Puritan thought his thought higher and his moral standards better than those of his successors. So they were.
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