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Page 51
... cutter , or cruiser as the craft were then called , was not long in following her from Baltimore . This vessel was the speedi- est in Chesapeake waters , for the officials well knew that the VISION , which by the way had been built by ...
... cutter , or cruiser as the craft were then called , was not long in following her from Baltimore . This vessel was the speedi- est in Chesapeake waters , for the officials well knew that the VISION , which by the way had been built by ...
Page 52
... cutter , her commander had altered his plans to meet conditions . Hoisting the United States revenue flag , he ran down to the incoming merchantman , and hailing the captain , ordered him to lay to . Then , the red flag with the white ...
... cutter , her commander had altered his plans to meet conditions . Hoisting the United States revenue flag , he ran down to the incoming merchantman , and hailing the captain , ordered him to lay to . Then , the red flag with the white ...
Page 53
... cutter was fol- lowing in his wake , and that he had adopted this ruse of posing as a government officer in order to provide an alibi for the skipper of the JOHANNA when , as most certainly would happen , the revenue cutter overhauled ...
... cutter was fol- lowing in his wake , and that he had adopted this ruse of posing as a government officer in order to provide an alibi for the skipper of the JOHANNA when , as most certainly would happen , the revenue cutter overhauled ...
Page 54
... cutter ran alongside the JOHANNA and hailed her . " We have just been boarded by that cutter run- ning out , " bellowed the ship's skipper to the officers on the government craft . " They claimed I had goods not on my manifest and ...
... cutter ran alongside the JOHANNA and hailed her . " We have just been boarded by that cutter run- ning out , " bellowed the ship's skipper to the officers on the government craft . " They claimed I had goods not on my manifest and ...
Page 55
... cutter would continue on , when the VISION could double on her tracks and return to York and land the contraband in safety . In utter darkness , showing no lights , the schoon- er worked in towards the Roads , until with a jar and crash ...
... cutter would continue on , when the VISION could double on her tracks and return to York and land the contraband in safety . In utter darkness , showing no lights , the schoon- er worked in towards the Roads , until with a jar and crash ...
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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.