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Harry Collingwood. The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
How Robert Dyer brought news of disaster
Chapter Three
How old Simon Radlett made a certain proposition to George
Chapter Four
How the “Nonsuch” came to Trinidad and was careened there
Chapter Five
How they captured the “Santa Maria” at Margarita
Chapter Six
How they came to a desert island and buried their treasure
Chapter Seven
How they came to San Juan de Ulua
Chapter Eight
How George proceeded to deal with the Authorities of San Juan
Chapter Nine
How George visited the Holy Inquisition at San Juan
Chapter Ten
How the plate ships sought to escape from San Juan
Chapter Eleven
How they emptied the strong rooms of the twelve plate ships
Chapter Twelve
How they lost two men, and encountered a hurricane
Chapter Thirteen
How the Englishmen took Nombre de Dios
Chapter Fourteen
How the Governor of Panama treated Don Sebastian’s request
Chapter Fifteen
How the Englishmen marched across the isthmus to Panama
Chapter Sixteen
How they took the great galleon
Chapter Seventeen
How they fought the galley
Chapter Eighteen
How George found his brother
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Harry Collingwood
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Bitterly disappointed at his failure to enlist Marshall’s active sympathy, George called upon some half a dozen other Plymouth merchants. But everywhere the result was the same. The adventure itself met with a certain qualified approval, but the opinion was unanimous that George was altogether too young and inexperienced to be entrusted with its leadership. In despair, George at last called upon Mr. William Hawkins, the father of Captain John Hawkins, to obtain his opinion upon the project. Captain John had arrived home a day or two previously, and young Saint Leger was so far fortunate that he was thus able to obtain the opinion of both father and son upon it. As might have been expected, although these two seamen were friends of the Saint Legers, they were so embittered by disappointment at the failure of the recent expedition that they could not find words strong enough to denounce the scheme and to discourage its would-be leader, and so well did they succeed in the latter that for an hour or two George was almost inclined to abandon the idea altogether. Yet how could he reconcile himself to the leaving of his brother to a fate far worse than death itself—for though he had sought to make the best of the matter to his mother, he himself had no illusions as to what that fate would be—and how could he face his mother with such a suggestion? The lad had infinite faith in himself, He knew, better than anybody else, that he had never yet had an opportunity to show of what stuff he was made, he candidly admitted the damaging fact of his extreme youth, but he would not admit to himself that it was a disability, although others regarded it as such; he had been a sailor for seven years and during that time he had mastered the whole of the knowledge that then went to make the complete seaman; moreover, he was also old for his years, a thinker, and he carried at the back of his brain many an idea that was destined to be of inestimable value to him in the near future; therefore, after a long walk to and fro upon the Hoe, he returned home, disappointed it is true, but with his resolution as strong and his courage as high as ever.
And here he found balm and encouragement awaiting him in the person of one Simon Radlett, a shipbuilder, owning an extensive yard at Millbay.
