Excerpt from The Black Barque: A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship Gentle Hand on Her Last African Cruise When I struck the beach in Havre, the war with England had turned adrift upon that port's dock heads a strange assortment of men. Many had served in. Either the American or English navy, and many more had manned French privateers and had fought under Napoleon's eagles. The peace that had followed turned hordes of these fighting men into peaceable merchant sailors without ships, and they drifted about without definite means ...
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Excerpt from The Black Barque: A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship Gentle Hand on Her Last African Cruise When I struck the beach in Havre, the war with England had turned adrift upon that port's dock heads a strange assortment of men. Many had served in. Either the American or English navy, and many more had manned French privateers and had fought under Napoleon's eagles. The peace that had followed turned hordes of these fighting men into peaceable merchant sailors without ships, and they drifted about without definite means of sup port. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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