Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 296
ore,he wants them charged. That this was the state of feeling on the isl-and of Tortuga was discovered before very THE BUCCANEERS OF OUR COAST. 28l long by the French mercantile agents, whothen applied to the mother-country for assist-ance in collecting the debts due them; and abody of men, who… … in a small boat filled with some of his trusty men roc rowed quietly into the port. (see page 284.) or deputy sheriffs, was sent out to the island.But although these officers were armed withpistols and swords, as well as with authority,they could do nothing against the buccaneers;Vol. XXV.—36.…
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