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Joe's theory seemed plausible, that the pirates had abandoned the Plymouth Adventure in time to avert drowning with her, and were driven away from the bight and the beach by Captain Wellsby's well-armed sailors. "Do they know Blackbeard's rendezvous in the North Carolina waters, Joe?" was the natural query.
The sloop's destination was Cherokee Inlet and she was equipped with tackle and gear for a peculiar kind of fishing. For once they made a voyage without fear of pirates. Safely the sloop passed in by the outlying cay where the charred bones of Blackbeard's brig were washed by the surf.
It breeds all the plagues of Egypt." They came to the tiny lagoon and rounded the bend beyond which the pirogue had capsized Blackbeard's cock-boat. There was nothing to indicate that any human being had visited this lonely spot since that sensational encounter. No trees had been cut down to serve as purchases for lifting the sea-chest from its oozy hiding-place.
The weather favored it, heat in the air and little wind. The mist seemed also to rise from the water, hanging low but as thick as a summer fog. It shrouded the coast and Blackbeard's ship and crept out across the harbor until the brig was enveloped in it. "'Twas like this when we swum ashore and found the pirogue, Cap'n Bonnet," said Joe Hawkridge. "A curious kind o' white smother from the swamp."
Five days later the battle was fought. Blackbeard's sloop was lying inside of Ocracoke Inlet among the shoals and sand bars when he first heard of Governor Spottiswood's proclamation. There had been a storm, and a good many vessels had run into the inlet for shelter. Blackbeard knew nearly all of the captains of these vessels, and it was from them that he first heard of the proclamation.
"Marooned," quoth Joe, "to be eaten by snakes and alligators." "Nonsense," snapped Master Cockrell, who had hunted deer and wild-fowl on the Carolina coast. "We can pick our way with care. I have seen pleasanter landscapes than this, but I like it better than Blackbeard's company."
Blackbeard was shot five times, and was wounded with swords; but the old monster fought until he fell down dead while cocking his pistol. The rest of the pirates on the deck of Maynard's ship were taken prisoners. Maynard's other sloop was fighting with the men left on board Blackbeard's vessels.
And Blackbeard's men are ripe for mutiny. Let 'em once sight Stede Bonnet's topsails and " A gunner's mate broke into this interview with a cat-o'-nine-tails and flogged Joe Hawkridge forward to duty. He ducked and fled with a farewell grin at the nephew of the Secretary of the Council.
But the law says keep from fighting `as much as you can. Mind that, Chingatok, and if you are ever induced to go to war for the sake of a little island for the sake of a little insult, don't flatter yourself that you are keeping out of it as much as lieth in you." "Good, good," said the giant, earnestly; "Blackbeard's words are wise."
You should have seen him in the Plymouth Adventure." "The boy is weak and all unstrung, though he carries it bravely, Jack. And Blackbeard's men would take special pains to kill him as a deserter." By this humane verdict the two lads were shielded from peril, as far as it lay within Stede Bonnet's power.
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