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George Herbert Ely. With Drake on the Spanish Main
With Drake on the Spanish Main
Table of Contents
OXFORD: HORACE HART. PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY. PREFACE
CHAPTER I
Jetsam
CHAPTER II
Sea-Girt
CHAPTER III
A Wreck—and Mirandola
CHAPTER IV
Salvage
CHAPTER V
The Edge of the Marsh
CHAPTER VI
The Spanish Whip
CHAPTER VII
Amos Turnpenny
CHAPTER VIII
Half-Pikes and Machetes
CHAPTER IX
Amos Tells his Story
CHAPTER X
The Maroons Build a Canoe
CHAPTER XI
The Main
CHAPTER XII
Beneath the Walls
CHAPTER XIII
The Taking of Fort Aguila
CHAPTER XIV
Vae Victis
CHAPTER XV
A Long Chase
CHAPTER XVI
Jan Biddle, Master
CHAPTER XVII
The Demi-Culverin
CHAPTER XVIII
Juan the Maroon
CHAPTER XIX
Drake's Camp
CHAPTER XX
A Raid through the Forest
CHAPTER XXI
Maiden Isle Again
CHAPTER XXII
A Fight on the Cliffs
CHAPTER XXIII
Bombarded
CHAPTER XXIV
The Leaguer of Skeleton Cave
CHAPTER XXV
The Mule Trains
Conclusion
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George Herbert Ely, Charles James L'Estrange
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Come, Sir Monkey," he said, with an attempt at gaiety, "let us go together and inspect our treasure trove."
He felt again a strange sense of awe as he climbed into the vessel's waist, and trod her planks delicately. But remarking that her position had been shifted slightly by the incoming tide during the night, and that little streams of water were escaping from holes on to the sand, he reflected that it behoved him to lose no time if he wished to secure her contents, for any day a tempest might spring up and shatter the hulk irretrievably. Gulping down the timidity that still troubled him, he climbed to the quarter-deck, and went forward through the broken doorway into the main cabin.
