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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 48 CHAPTER m. THE BUFFALO PROVES MORE THAN WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. With another day's steady sail to the northwest, the small squadron under Sir Charles Douglas made good way up the Spanish Main for the windward channel; where he meant to leave it safe off Port Royal in Jamaica. Except the very leaky state of the injured forty-four on two decks, there was no ground for continued anxiety on his part; and as to this, its real weight was shared by the Astrcea frigate alone, whose help sufficed by the afternoon to get the two-decker in a condition above danger. In regard to hostile cruisers, those inner waters were evidently for the present as clear of them as was reported by sundry coasting craft and stray merchantmen with which the squadron spoke. During the earlier course of the day, indeed, a slight occurrence varied its tenor; with some extrainterest for the Astrcea. The same little innocent neutral schooner was made out to leeward, which had been left to its own resources on the night of the Cornucopia's abduction from convoy. Stoutly plodding away with her home-freight for the distant Baltic, she was easily known by the quaint old Scandinavian build, ere her Danish colours answered the Bedfordshire's inquiries. The last- named frigate, bearing up to speak, sent a boat aboard, and readily obtained all the information thus available. Two days previous, ?on that immediately subsequent to the action between the fleets, ? the Danish schooner had been passed by two vessels about a couple of leagues to windward; a large merchantman and a hermaphrodite, which she at once recognised as her late pretended consort in company with the largest of the two British West- Indiamen. They were under all sail, making an exceedingly fast course, and took almost no notice of her, seeming .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217452489 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217452485 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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