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Updated: June 14, 2025
None of your rover tricks, Ned Galloway, unless they are called for, or I'll let you know which of us two is captain and which is quartermaster. Make him fast to the table." "Nay, I thought you meant to roast him!" said the quartermaster. "You surely do not mean to let him go?" "If you and I were marooned on a Bahama cay, Ned Galloway, it is still for me to command and for you to obey.
He sailed along the coast until evening, when he saw yet another island in the distance to the south-west; and he therefore lay-to for the night. At dawn the next morning he landed on the island and took formal possession of it, naming it Santa Maria de la Concepcion, which is the Rum Cay of the modern charts.
I found one a year or two ago in my garden here buried down among the roots of that old fig tree." "Then," put in Charlie, "there was that mysterious stranger over at North Cay. He's supposed to have got away with quite a pile." "Tell me about him," said I. "Well, there used to be an old eccentric character in the town here a half-breed by the name of Andrews. John will remember him "
"But it would be too farfetched to speculate that other treasure hunters had found the location and were diving right at this time." "This might be related to what happened on St. Thomas," Rick ventured. Zircon shook his massive head. "Extremely unlikely. Consider." He ticked off the points on his fingers. "Who knew we were coming to Clipper Cay? Ernst, Steve, and his Navy friend.
They had realized that no landing place would be available on the cay for a wheeled aircraft. But there was little to be gained by landing now when they didn't even know which house would be theirs.
He had also brought a basketful of yams of an inferior quality, as sea stock for the barit during the voyage, and promised more on the following morning. December 16th. Two days ago we left Darnley Island for Bramble Cay, distant about thirty miles North-East, but owing to calms and light winds had to anchor twice.
He gave the names of all the intending blockade-runners in the harbor of Nassau; but the captain declared that he could not capture them on any such evidence as the detective had been able to obtain, for it would not prove the intention. "The Ovidio may not come out of Nassau for two months to come, and then she will proceed to Green Cay," said Captain Chantor.
On the 6th of June Admiral Sampson bombarded the shore batteries and the mouth of the harbor for two hours and a half, destroying a number of houses on Smith Cay, setting fire to the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, which was moored near the end of the Socapa promontory, and killing or wounding twenty-five or thirty officers and men on the cruiser, in the batteries, and in Morro Castle.
Noon that day found us three miles to windward of the Anguilas, situate at the south-east extremity of the Cay Sal Bank; and an hour later the lookout on board the Foam reported a sail, apparently a large schooner, on our weather-beam, running up the Old Channel under easy canvas.
"He was a pretty cay poy in those days, heigh, Lindau?" asked Fulkerson, burlesquing the old man's accent, with an impudent wink that made Lindau himself laugh. "But in the dark ages, I mean, there in Indianapolis. Just how long ago did you old codgers meet there, anyway?"
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