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... light and valuable articles , whereas , if provided with ample means of transportation , they would be more ambitious and would carry large cargoes and bulky goods if such were remunerative . Even if the exportation or importation of ...
... light and valuable articles , whereas , if provided with ample means of transportation , they would be more ambitious and would carry large cargoes and bulky goods if such were remunerative . Even if the exportation or importation of ...
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... lights on the attitude of old New England merchants and shippers towards smuggling are often to be found among the old letters , documents and records of the times . Thus , in 1774 , Captain John Wright , master of the schooner ...
... lights on the attitude of old New England merchants and shippers towards smuggling are often to be found among the old letters , documents and records of the times . Thus , in 1774 , Captain John Wright , master of the schooner ...
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... light draught vessels were essential . Craft that could dart into some narrow , shallow estuary or creek ; that could find safe anchorage in an obscure cove or bay ; that were small enough to hide behind a wooded islet or point ; that ...
... light draught vessels were essential . Craft that could dart into some narrow , shallow estuary or creek ; that could find safe anchorage in an obscure cove or bay ; that were small enough to hide behind a wooded islet or point ; that ...
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... light in the little belle turrette of the inne , you will stande out again and keep at a distance untill the light is changed for a blue one , when you will run boldly in . Six - In no case are your men to come on shore nor leave the ...
... light in the little belle turrette of the inne , you will stande out again and keep at a distance untill the light is changed for a blue one , when you will run boldly in . Six - In no case are your men to come on shore nor leave the ...
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... lights , the schoon- er worked in towards the Roads , until with a jar and crash that threw men from their feet and car- ried the foremast with spars and rigging over the bows , the VISION ran hard and fast upon a treacherous shoal ...
... lights , the schoon- er worked in towards the Roads , until with a jar and crash that threw men from their feet and car- ried the foremast with spars and rigging over the bows , the VISION ran hard and fast upon a treacherous shoal ...
Common terms and phrases
American ashore Baratarians Barhona boat brandy Brazil brigantine British captain captured cargo carried casks chance channel chase cigars coast guard confiscated contraband contrabandistas craft crew customs officers DANIEL CHATER daring deck declared despite diamonds dollars drugs dutiable duties England fact famous fellow fleet force Francis Bourgeois French gang gems glers gling Goudhurst hands Hawkhurst gang horse hundred islands Jabez Lafitte land lawless liquor smugglers Long Island Sound lugger matter ment Montmorillon mountain mystery never Owlers passed passengers picturesque pirate pistol ports possess pounds prison profits Pyrenees realize result revenue cutter revenue officers rum runners rum-runners safe sail schooner secret seized ship shore skipper slave smugglers sloop sloop-of-war smug smuggling Spanish stealing wool stones story suspicion tain thousand tion traband trade vessels watched West Indies whalemen whaling wool
Popular passages
Page 71 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
Page 82 - If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 71 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 71 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 31 - ... wood, of the growth, production, or manufacture of any English plantations in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported from any of the said English plantations, to any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty...
Page 71 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers...
Page 31 - ... any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his...
Page 141 - A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother.
Page 142 - I am not dead, but sleepeth here, And when the Trumpet Sound I will appear. Four balls thro' me Pearced there way. Hard it was. I'd no time to pray. This stone that here you Do see My Comerades erected for the sake of me.