Buccaneer
“They left before sunrise in one of the captured vessels, eighty men in all. ‘Bastards, bastards, utter bastards!’ announced one of the surgeons who had decided to stay on. He had just discovered that Coxon’s company had taken with them most of the expedition medicines. ‘How are we expected to do our job when we lack the remedies. They scamper off, tails between their legs, while we’re the ones who can expect to see action.’ To show his disgust, he spat over the side of the galleon.
She was ...now to be their flagship, and at 400 tons made an impressive show with a wealth of gilding to show off her high stern in the typical Spanish style. She lacked cannon, but with luck their victims would not even know that she was in foreign hands until she was within musket range. The men had been debating what to call her. La Santissima Trinidad sounded too much like popery. Yet every sailor knew that it was bad luck to change a vessel’s name. So at Hector’s suggestion they had decided to keep the name but change the language, calling her Trinity, and even the most superstitious of their company had been content.MoreLess
She was ...now to be their flagship, and at 400 tons made an impressive show with a wealth of gilding to show off her high stern in the typical Spanish style. She lacked cannon, but with luck their victims would not even know that she was in foreign hands until she was within musket range. The men had been debating what to call her. La Santissima Trinidad sounded too much like popery. Yet every sailor knew that it was bad luck to change a vessel’s name. So at Hector’s suggestion they had decided to keep the name but change the language, calling her Trinity, and even the most superstitious of their company had been content.MoreLess
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