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Updated: June 18, 2025
Piracy is an evil which the Colonial Fleet is specially designed to check, and it used to be very bad at one time before the Ballinese War of 1845. In the year before this, a Dutch merchantman, the Overyssel, stranded on the coast of Bally, and the crew were massacred, and ship and cargo looted by the Ballinese.
Men looted the stores and feasted, or wantonly destroyed valuables they had no use for. None stopped this havoc, for the officers were quartered in the adjacent houses, themselves holding high revelry. Lawless hordes visited the police offices, threw their furniture into the streets, tore to shreds all the books, papers and records found, and created general havoc.
She nodded, but there was a moment's anxiety in her eyes, and he saw for an instant the slightest quiver in her throat. "You won't let them keep me? No matter what they say you won't let them keep me?" He jumped up with a laugh and tilted her chin so that he looted straight into her eyes; and her faith filled them again in a flood. "No you're going with me," he promised. "Come.
"Are you drunk, Juggut Khan?" "Your honor is pleased to be humorous? No, I am not drunk. Nor have I eaten opium. I have eaten of the bread of bitterness this day, and drunk of the cup of gall. I have seen British officers good, brave fools, some of whom I knew and loved killed by the men they were supposed to lead. I have seen a barracks burning, and a city given over to be looted.
It had evidently been in Siminol a long time, and was possibly stolen from a trading-post on some piratical expedition, or looted from a Spanish planter's home during a raid on a coast town, or more prosaically acquired in exchange for curios. However that may be, it was considered a rare bit of bric-a-brac in Siminol, and the possessor was counted a most fortunate man among his fellows.
A gang of five or six hundred men, they say, has raided one of our treasuries and made off with six thousand rupees. Our house will be looted next, they expect." I felt greatly relieved. So it was our own money after all. I wanted to send for Amulya at once and tell him that he need only hand over those notes to my husband and leave the explanations to me.
"We burned that barque," proceeded the storekeeper dreamily, "after we looted her of everything wuth while. Then " The door was flung open with a gust of wind behind it. A lanky, half-grown lad stuck his head in at the opening to shrill: "Hi! ain't ye heard 'bout it?" "Bout what?" demanded Milt Baker. "There's a schooner drivin' in on to the Gull Rocks," cried the news vender.
And what was this success? Immediately, it meant getting out of the bay, and into the open sea in a twelve-foot dinghy looted from some ship years ago by the Rio Medio pirates, if that miserable population of sordid and ragged outcasts of the Antilles deserved such a romantic name. They were sea-thieves.
The building originally possessed two wonderful silver doors, of his designing, but these were looted by Jat invaders in 1764 and melted down.
Henderson. "Some of the ships are very old, and, by their build must have sailed the waters centuries ago." "Maybe some of them are treasure ships," suggested Jack. "They might be," admitted the professor. "Then we'll go aboard and get the gold," spoke Mark. "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed," went on the inventor. "In the first place most treasure ships are looted before they sink.
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