Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 390
rawled throughthe water as heavy-footed as an elephant. There was the faintestpossible rustle of water at the bows. The airquivered with the intense heat, and the bluehills of the island to starboard danced throughthe aerial waves like jelly-blobs on a trans-parent ocean. And all the time the fleet… … OFF THE STARBOARD B >W, SIR! SEVERAL BOATS IN SIGHT, CRIED THE LOOKOUT. prize to be captured by the native buccaneersalmost without resistance. The Candace seemed alone in the strait, farfrom human aid, in case aid was needed; and itwas no sudden old-womanish feeling that hadmade Captain Gardner…
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