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"If you please, sir," said Jack, "we captured that ship with the cutter the night after we went away I'm not a first-rate navigator, and I was blown to the Zaffarine Islands, where I remained two months for want of hands: as soon as I procured them I made sail again I have lost three men by sharks, and I have two wounded in to-day's fight the ship mounts twelve guns, is half laden with lead and cotton prints, has fourteen thousand dollars in the cabin, and three shot-holes right through her and the sooner you send some people on board of her the better."
Now the north point from the Zaffarine Islands leads out to the Spanish coast again, and Gibraltar lies five or six points of the compass to this side of it if we steer that way we shall get to Gibraltar." "All right, Massa Easy," replied Mesty; and Jack was right, with the exception of the variation, which he knew nothing about.
"If you please, sir," said Jack, "we captured that ship with the cutter the night after we went away I'm not a first-rate navigator, and I was blown to the Zaffarine Islands, where I remained two months for want of hands: as soon as I procured them I made sail again I have lost three men by sharks, and I have two wounded in to-day's fight the ship mounts twelve guns, is half laden with lead and cotton prints, has fourteen thousand dollars in the cabin, and three shot-holes right through her and the sooner you send some people on board of her the better."
Captain Wilson frowned, and Jack, perceiving that he was displeased, then told him the whole story, whereupon Captain Wilson laughed, and Jack then also explained, in Spanish, to the officers of the corvette, who replied, "that it was not the first time, and would not be the last, that men had got into a scrape through a petticoat." Jack replied, "At the Zaffarine Islands."
"Zaffarine Isles," replied the Spanish captain; "they are not inhabited." "Plenty of ground-sharks," replied Jack. The Spanish captain thought our hero a very strange fellow, to fight under a green silk petticoat, and to take lessons in Spanish from the ground-sharks.
"Well, then, we were blown off shore by the wind, and must of course have come down this way; and here you see are three little islands, called Zaffarine Islands, and with no names of towns upon them, and therefore uninhabited; and you see they lie just like the islands we are anchored among now we must be at the Zaffarine Islands and only six inches from Gibraltar."
At sunset the allies were seen approaching, and Howe formed his fleet, but sent the supply-ships to anchor at the Zaffarine Islands, on the coast of Barbary, to await events. Next morning the enemy was close to land northward, but visible only from the mastheads; the British apparently having headed south during the night.
Captain Wilson frowned, and Jack, perceiving that he was displeased, then told him the whole story, whereupon Captain Wilson laughed, and Jack then also explained, in Spanish, to the officers of the corvette, who replied that it was not the first time, and would not be the last, that men had got into a scrape through a petticoat. Jack replied, "At the Zaffarine Islands."
"Well, then, we were blown off shore by the wind, and must of course have come down this way; and here you see are three little islands, called Zaffarine Islands, and with no names of towns upon them, and therefore uninhabited; and you see they lie just like the islands we are anchored among now we must be at the Zaffarine Islands and only six inches from Gibraltar."
Now the north point from the Zaffarine Islands leads out to the Spanish coast again, and Gibraltar lies five or six points of the compass to this side of it if we steer that way we shall get to Gibraltar." "All right, Massa Easy," replied Mesty, and Jack was right, with the exception of the variation, which he knew nothing about.
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