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It's the one great, gen'ral, an standin terror of this dangerous and iron-bound bay. There's no jokin, no nonsense about Quaco Ledge; mind I tell you." "Where does it lie?" asked Phil, after a pause. "Wal, do you know whar Quaco settlement is?" "Yes."
The treaty was made in 1738 at Trelawney Town, the Maroons being represented by Captains Cudjoe, Accompong, Johnny, Cuffee, and Quaco, and a number of their followers, "who have been in a state of war and hostility for several years past against our sovereign lord the king and the inhabitants of this island."
Lady Anne, with her indolence and her languor a lady who looks as if she was saying, 'Quasha, tell Quaco to tell Fibba to pick up this pin that lies at my foot; do you think she'd get a part by heart, ma'am, to oblige you or that she could, if she would, act Zara? No more than she could fly!" "But her sister, Lady Frances, would and could," said Mrs. Falconer.
Thee weren't bred in Quaco for nothin'. Come, rouse up, wake snakes, and walk chalks, as the thoughtless children of evil say. I see thee is warmin' to the subject." "Men do allow," said he, lookin' at me with great self-complacency, "that in speech I am peeowerful."
Solomon now had the satisfaction of seeing them eat more, and gave manifest signs of that satisfaction by the twinkle of his eye and the lustre of his ebony brow. After this the time passed on slowly and heavily; but at length eleven o'clock came, and passed, and in a short time they were once more under way. "We're going to Quaco now arn't we?" asked Phil.
"Verily," sais I, "friend, I am that man, and wilt thee tell me who thee is that wantest me, and where thee livest?" "Men call me," he said, "Jehu Judd, and when to home, I live in Quaco in New Brunswick." I was glad of that, because it warn't possible the critter could know anything of me, and I wanted to draw him out. "And what does thee want, friend?" I said.
The boat followed the impulse of the wind, and the young sailor saw with delight that his experiment was successful, and before long the dark rocks of Quaco Ledge were lost to view. Now, where there is a definite object to steer by, or a compass to guide one, and a decent rudder, even an inexperienced hand can manage to come somewhere near the point that he aims at.
"Yes; right straight on into Quaco Harbor, fair an squar." "I don't see how it's possible for you to know so perfectly where you are." "Young sir, there ain't a nook, nor a corner, nor a hole, nor a stun, in all the outlinin an configoortion of this here bay but what's mapped out an laid down all c'rect in this here brain.
To the S. of this ground, toward the Nova Scotia shore and to within 2 miles of the coast, the bottom is mainly muddy and of little account as a fishing ground. Tides are very heavy on all the inner grounds of the Bay of Fundy. Quaco Ledges.
The schooner was too far away for them to see distinctly, but this one was undoubtedly Solomon; yet his gestures were so extraordinary that it was difficult to identify him. He it was by whom the blasts on the fog horn were produced. Standing amidships, he held the fog horn in one hand, and in the other he held a battered old cap which supplied the place of the old straw hat lost at Quaco.
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