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Updated: May 21, 2025
Now it so happens that you cannot get, in New York at all, anything like a decent game-bag a little fancy-worked French or German jigmaree machine you can get anywhere, I grant, that will do well enough for a fellow to carry on his shoulders, who goes out robin-gunning, but nothing for your man to carry, wherein to keep your birds cool, fresh, and unmutilated.
"The Vice Admiral, commanding on the Jamaica station, desires me to say, that the bearer, the boatswain of the dockyard, Mr Luke Jigmaree, has instructions to cruise for, and if possible to fall in with you, before you weather Cape Maize, and falling in with you, to deliver up charge of the vessel to you, as well as of the five negroes, and the pilot, Peter Mangrove, who are on board of her.
"Zounds," cried Jigmaree, "there's the clink of hammers they are knocking off the fetters of the slaves." "If you let the blacks loose," I sung out in Spanish, "by the Heaven above us, I will blow you up, although I should go with you! Hold your hands, Spaniards! Mind what you do, madmen!" "On with the hatches, men," shouted Tailtackle.
At this moment, Tailtackle, in his shirt, pantaloons, and shoes, put his head out of the hatchway, and said: "If I might advise, sir, I think we had better keep our hatches down; that fellow is not honorable, depend upon it, sir." "Very well, Tailtackle, very well. Forward there, Master Jigmaree; give him a shot, if he won't speak, right between the masts, sir. Do you hear?"
"Then we shall have some fun for it," thought I. I had scarcely spoken, when the brig once more shortened sail; and the instant that the foresail rose, he let fly his bow gun at us then another, another, and another. "Nine guns of a side, as I am a sinner," quoth jigmaree; and three of the shot struck us, mortally wounded one poor fellow, and damaged poor little Reefy by a splinter in the side.
Tailtackle, in his shirt and trowsers, and felt shoes, now stuck his head up the main hatchway. "I would recommend your getting the hatches on, sir that fellow is not honest, sir, take my word for it." "Never mind, Mr Tailtackle, never mind. Forward, there; Mr Jigmaree, slap a round shot into him, since he won't speak, or heave to right between his masts, do you hear are you ready?"
"God in Heaven!" cried Jigmaree, "that is the sound of hammers; they are freeing the blacks." "If you unchain the negroes," cried I, in the Spanish language, "by the Heaven above us, I will blow you into the air, if I have to go with you. Stop, Spanairds! think madmen, what you are doing." "Cover the hatches," cried Tailtackle.
The Wave having been armed and fitted with every thing considered necessary, you are to man her with thirty five of your crew, including officers, and to place her under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Cringle, who is to be furnished with a copy of this letter authenticated by your signature, and to whom you will give written instructions, that he is first of all to cruise in the great Cuba channel, until the 14th proximo, for the prevention of piracy, and the suppression of the slave trade carried on between the island of Cuba and the coast of Africa, and to detain and carry into Havanna, or Nassau, New Providence, all vessels having slaves on board, which he may have reason to believe have been shipped beyond the prescribed limits on the African coast as specified in the margin; and after the 14th he is to proceed direct to New Providence if unsuccessful, there to land Mr Jigmaree, and the dockyard negroes, and await your return from the northward, after having seen the merchantmen clear of the Caicos passage.
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