Let me say here that this man, although I knew him
afterward as one of the most unscrupulous and heartless of
pirates,--in fact the typical buccaneer of the books,--was to me
always kind, considerate, and, at times, even tender. He was a
capital seaman. I give this evidence in favor of a much ridiculed
race, who have been able seamen for centuries."
"Did you ever read that Portuguese Guide-book?" asked Lightbody of
his neighbor; "it's the most exquisitely ridiculous thing--"
"Will the great American pirate kindly go on, or resume his
original functions," said Miss Jones, over the table, with a
significant look in the direction of Lightbody. But her anxiety
was instantly misinterpreted by the polite and fair-play loving
Englishman: "I say, now, don't you know that the fact is these
Portuguese fellahs are always ahead of us in the discovery
business? Why, you know--"
"I shipped with him on a brig, ostensibly bound to St. Kitts and a
market. We had scarcely left port before I discovered the true
character of the vessel.
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