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I strolled forward, encountering more carts and more heaps of greengages; presently I turned to the right by a street, which led some way up the hill. The houses were tolerably large and all white. The town, with its white houses placed by the seaside, on the skirt of a mountain, beneath a blue sky and a broiling sun, put me something in mind of a Moorish piratical town, in which I had once been.
"I am afraid," said Mr. Osgood, slowly, "that I am not very expert in the manufacture of noxious piratical chemicals. You will have to seek your inspiration elsewhere." Smith turned to Wilkinson. Heretofore the representative of the Guardian had taken no part in the conversation. "Would you mind stating, without quite so many figures of speech, just what you want?" he asked quietly. "Certainly.
Negotiations between Queen Elizabeth and the States Aspect of affair between England and the Netherlands Complaints of the Hollanders on the piratical acts of the English The Dutch Envoy and the English Government Caron's interview with Elizabeth The Queen promises redress of grievances.
Presently, having finished his soup, the general leaned forward and stared hard at me for a moment. Then he remarked: "Excuse me, Conyers it is no use being formal, when we are about to be cooped up together on board ship for the next two months, is it? are you the man that got so shockingly hacked about at the capture of that piratical slaver, the the hang it all, I've forgotten her name now?"
They had to deal with a mutinous crew one day and with a typhoon the next. If by skillful seamanship a piratical schooner was avoided in the reaches of the Spanish Main, the resources of diplomacy would be taxed the next day to persuade some English or French colonial governor not to seize the cargo that had escaped the pirates.
The first pirates who made themselves known in American waters were the famous buccaneers; these began their career in a very commonplace and unobjectionable manner, and the name by which they were known had originally no piratical significance. It was derived from the French word boucanier, signifying "a drier of beef."
Madison and subsequent Presidents had to deal with the question of foreign enlistment and equipment in the United States, and since the days of John Quincy Adams it has been one of the constant cares of the Government in the United States to prevent piratical expeditions against the feeble Spanish American Republics from leaving our shores."
"Who grows such fine, juicy melons and keeps such a nice, amiable pet dog," laughed Jack, roaring at the recollection of the piratical expedition of which the island dweller had told the boys. "Ha, ha, ha!" shouted Bill in chorus. "We'll have to give him another visit soon." "But what about the old land crab, Sam?" demanded Jack the next minute. "What was he doing in the bank?"
What will appear most extraordinary is, that the very princes who are enjoying the stipend for the purchase of the site whereon the English authority is established, are believed to be the most active in equipping the prahus for these piratical expeditions; yet no notice is taken of them, although it would be so easy to control them by withholding payment until they had cleared themselves from suspicion, or by establishing residents in their chief towns.
The German translation is very elegantly and expensively printed in handsome octavos; and the Dutch translation, under the editorship of the archivist general of Holland, Bakhuyzen v. d. Brink, is enriched with copious notes and comments by that distinguished scholar. There are also three different piratical reprints of the original work at Amsterdam, Leipzig, and London.
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