There were, when the purple gloom of the tropical night descended upon the Caribbean, not more than ten men on guard aboard the Cinco Llagas, so confident—and with good reason—were the Spaniards of th
There were, when the purple gloom of the tropical night descended upon the Caribbean, not more than ten men on guard aboard the Cinco Llagas, so confident—and with good reason—were the Spaniards of th
When the cost of that victory came to be counted, it was found that of three hundred and twenty buccaneers who had left…
“VHY do you vait, my friend?” growled van der Kuylen. “Aye—in God's name!” snapped Willoughby. It was the aftern…
One of the boats bumped alongside the Arabella, and up the entrance ladder came first a slight, spruce little gentleman…
During the capitulation and for some time after, Captain Blood and the greater portion of his buccaneers had been at th…
Having crossed the Caribbean in the teeth of contrary winds, it was not until the early days of April that the French f…
Captain Blood was still in that disgruntled mood when he sailed from Tortuga, and still in that mood when he came to hi…
Meanwhile, some three months before Colonel Bishop set out to reduce Tortuga, Captain Blood, bearing hell in his soul, …
Five miles out at sea from Port Royal, whence the details of the coast of Jamaica were losing their sharpness, the Arab…
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