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Having been so unjustly deprived of Chaacmol without any remuneration for our time, labor, and expenditure, we decided to save the Cay monument from destruction at any cost, for should any ignorant persons attempt to move it, they would break it in so doing; so, after making a mould of it, we guarded it most securely, as we considered best, afterward inclosing it with planks, then built it up and left it as we had found it.
All the species contained therein have passed under my own observation, and I have distributed them in three columns; the first includes that portion of the north-east coast of Australia and its islands included between the Tropic of Capricorn and latitude 17 degrees 45 minutes south, or the parallel of the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria; the second comprises the remainder of the north-east coast as far to the northward as Cape York; and the third is devoted to the islands of Torres Strait, from Raine Islet to Bramble Cay.
That it was creditable to Mr. Mr. J. CAY gave "Professor Wilson and the University of Edinburgh, of which he was one of the brightest ornaments." Lord MEADOWBANK, after a suitable eulogium, gave "The Earl of Fife," which was drunk with three times three. Earl FIFE expressed his high gratification at the honour conferred on him.
And with the thought, Rick almost lost his mouthpiece. Their bubbles! Their bubbles would rise right past the frogmen, a dead giveaway! It might already be too late, because Zircon was almost directly under the cave! Clouds Over Clipper Cay Rick jerked frantically on the tie rope, four times for danger, then he turned and swam rapidly back the way they had come.
He greeted them and sat down to toast and tea. Breakfast was not his meal. The others chattered gently while he read his letters. "Good God!" said Mark suddenly. There was an instinctive turning of heads towards him. "I beg your pardon, Miss Norris. Sorry, Betty." Miss Norris smiled her forgiveness. She often wanted to say it herself, particularly at rehearsals. "I say, Cay!"
The very cay after Haeberlein's death it was necessary for him to speak at a mass meeting in the north of England, and he came back from it almost voiceless and so ill that they were at their wits' end to know what to do with him. The morrow did not mend matters for the jury disagreed in the blasphemy trial, and the whole thing had to be gone through again.
But he left Juan Ortiz, one of his men, a prisoner among them, who was afterward discovered by Soto and became his interpreter and guide. There is no good English equivalent for Soto's title of Adelantado. It means the officer in charge of a newly discovered country. Cay is an old Spanish word for islet. "Key" is an English version of the same word. Cay Verde is "Green Islet."
"A hard man to kill," said Peter Tobey. "Take me aboard. 'Tis best I have speech with him. Let the people wait here on the cay. They can stand another hour of it." There was fierce protest among the marooned pirates but the carpenter's mate gruffly demanded to know if they wished to be carried into the harbor and turned over to Blackbeard.
It's not likely, for it's probably nothing but a turtle cay, but there may be people living on the island where we're going who would seriously dispute our right to take anything away and might try to stop us. Few of those small islands are inhabited; still, I'll feel a good deal more comfortable to know that I've got these weapons stowed away where I can get them at a moment's notice.
"'My revenge? How do you mean? "'Well, paid her back in her own coin. "'Do you mean try and frighten her? "'No, no; but dressed up and pulled her leg a bit. Made her look a fool in front of the others. I laughed to myself again. 'Serve her jolly well right. "He jumped up excitedly. "'By Jove, Cay! he cried. 'If I could! How? You must think of a way.
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