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Page 9
To give the devil his due , no doubt many of these daring men were partly , at
least , actuated by altruistic motives and sympathy with the Cubans , for many of
them not only risked freedom and life by smuggling but joined the patriots ' forces
...
To give the devil his due , no doubt many of these daring men were partly , at
least , actuated by altruistic motives and sympathy with the Cubans , for many of
them not only risked freedom and life by smuggling but joined the patriots ' forces
...
Page 13
And as men who have the qualities to make them successful smugglers can , or
at least should , succeed in almost any walk of life , and with less risk and more
honestly than by smuggling , there is many a good smuggler lost among the
ranks ...
And as men who have the qualities to make them successful smugglers can , or
at least should , succeed in almost any walk of life , and with less risk and more
honestly than by smuggling , there is many a good smuggler lost among the
ranks ...
Page 13
He must be imaginative in order to create situations , to make and lay plans , to
devise new and ingenius means of evading the argus eyes of the officials : wary ,
subtle , taking alarm , being warned by little things , the least incident , matters ...
He must be imaginative in order to create situations , to make and lay plans , to
devise new and ingenius means of evading the argus eyes of the officials : wary ,
subtle , taking alarm , being warned by little things , the least incident , matters ...
Page 23
... Grande Terre and hang every man as a pirate , Naturally the thirty thousand
dollars had little weight with Lafitte who oftentimes lost or won twice that amount
at a single game of cards , and neither did he in the least desire a commission .
... Grande Terre and hang every man as a pirate , Naturally the thirty thousand
dollars had little weight with Lafitte who oftentimes lost or won twice that amount
at a single game of cards , and neither did he in the least desire a commission .
Page 26
But a faded bit of paper from a Baltimore newspaper of 1823 solves the mystery
of one of the Lafittes at least . It is little more than a paragraph in an
inconspicuous part of the periodical , as if of no importance , and reads as follows
: LAFITTE ...
But a faded bit of paper from a Baltimore newspaper of 1823 solves the mystery
of one of the Lafittes at least . It is little more than a paragraph in an
inconspicuous part of the periodical , as if of no importance , and reads as follows
: LAFITTE ...
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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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