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Page 36
... pounds . I will receive no more smug- gled blacks from thee as there is too great danger in dealing with them . If thee cannot pay the duty on thy blacks then must thee find some other mer- chant for the disposal of them . It is ...
... pounds . I will receive no more smug- gled blacks from thee as there is too great danger in dealing with them . If thee cannot pay the duty on thy blacks then must thee find some other mer- chant for the disposal of them . It is ...
Page 63
... pound imposed , which was prac- tically prohibitive . In 1298 the export tax was raised to six pence the pound , or ... pounds weight . In 1337 the exportation was again prohibited and the most stringent laws passed , among others one ...
... pound imposed , which was prac- tically prohibitive . In 1298 the export tax was raised to six pence the pound , or ... pounds weight . In 1337 the exportation was again prohibited and the most stringent laws passed , among others one ...
Page 66
... pound to the price to pay for their extra labor . At about this time , too , the government decided to substitute dragoons for the customs officers in the smuggler - infested district , which , from the gov- ernment's point of view ...
... pound to the price to pay for their extra labor . At about this time , too , the government decided to substitute dragoons for the customs officers in the smuggler - infested district , which , from the gov- ernment's point of view ...
Page 68
... pounds paid for shoes and stockings , with the naïve explanation that all the footgear of the dragoons had been " worn out chasing smugglers . " Finding that all the laws hitherto enacted made no impression upon the Owlers ' activities ...
... pounds paid for shoes and stockings , with the naïve explanation that all the footgear of the dragoons had been " worn out chasing smugglers . " Finding that all the laws hitherto enacted made no impression upon the Owlers ' activities ...
Page 70
... pound and was saleable in England at from three to five shillings . Brandy in France was worth only one pound for a four gallon tub , and brought four or five pounds in England , and a single small vessel could carry eighty tubs of the ...
... pound and was saleable in England at from three to five shillings . Brandy in France was worth only one pound for a four gallon tub , and brought four or five pounds in England , and a single small vessel could carry eighty tubs of the ...
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.