Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 433
For the trip to the United States, byway of the Azores or under convoy from Eng-land, he wanted forty thousand marks, or nearlyten thousand dollars. Promising to give him a definite answer bytelegraph that evening,— for Captain Poust wasgoing to Pillau on business,— we left him, and 420 HOW WE… … I HOISTED THE FLAG TO THE TRUCK OF THE FLAGSTAFF. plete outfit for sea. Somewhat later we re-ceived permission from the Secretary of theNavy to engage Poust, for fifteen hundred dol-lars, to take the Somers to England. Now, it transpired that, unwittingly, I hadled Captain Knapp into a considerable…
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