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... of a bygone era as the pirates and buccaneers , - always excepting of course
the rum - runners , who are neither romantic , picturesque nor swaggering , albeit
many are far more like the old corsairs than any smugglers of fiction . But these ...
... of a bygone era as the pirates and buccaneers , - always excepting of course
the rum - runners , who are neither romantic , picturesque nor swaggering , albeit
many are far more like the old corsairs than any smugglers of fiction . But these ...
Page 13
... thank Heavens , few successful smugglers , - comparatively speaking . Of
course many smugglers do not boast one - quarter of these numerous attributes
and consequently they fail , or abandon their chosen profession early in the
game .
... thank Heavens , few successful smugglers , - comparatively speaking . Of
course many smugglers do not boast one - quarter of these numerous attributes
and consequently they fail , or abandon their chosen profession early in the
game .
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What is more , they possessed some money and at once opened a smithy in
Bourbon Street , which of course was operated entirely by slaves , the Lafittes
never smirching their , delicate hands by manual labor . Both brothers were well
liked ...
What is more , they possessed some money and at once opened a smithy in
Bourbon Street , which of course was operated entirely by slaves , the Lafittes
never smirching their , delicate hands by manual labor . Both brothers were well
liked ...
Page 42
Of course the smugglers did not haunt every nook and corner of our seaboard - if
they had they could never have been suppressed , for there are many long
stretches which , for one reason or another , are not at all adapted to running ...
Of course the smugglers did not haunt every nook and corner of our seaboard - if
they had they could never have been suppressed , for there are many long
stretches which , for one reason or another , are not at all adapted to running ...
Page 49
Of course no honest merchant skipper would stoop to this . He had not only his
reputation but his ship to consider , for if once he was suspected of being a
confederate of the smugglers and was caught , his career as an honest seaman
would ...
Of course no honest merchant skipper would stoop to this . He had not only his
reputation but his ship to consider , for if once he was suspected of being a
confederate of the smugglers and was caught , his career as an honest seaman
would ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Smugglers and Smuggling |
| Author | Alpheus Hyatt Verrill |
| Publisher | Duffield, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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