Fanny
“I cried, to the Vision of my former Love, now with a long red Beard plaited with Sea-green Ribbands, and the Sea-green Eyes which had a lunatick Look. But Lancelot regarded me blankly as if he neither understood nor recogniz’d me. Likewise Horatio seem’d stunn’d to be call’d by Name. He had let his Hair grow into a ferocious Bush and atop it wore a tatter’d Hat, laced with tarnish’d Silver. Like legendary Blackbeard, he’d taken to putting lighted Matches ’neath his Hat, which glow’d along their... Fuses and made him look the Compleat Vision of a Fiend from Hell. The other Black Men had Faces cut with Tribal Scars and Teeth fil’d into Points: their Skins were dark as Ebony. ’Twas clear they were Africans, not former Slaves from the Sugar Isles; and they’d clearly turn’d Pyrate with great Gusto. Astounded that a Wench dar’d to address their Captain and Quartermaster so familiarly, they seiz’d me by the Arms and held me fast.For a Moment, I was terrified. Can I be dreaming?MoreLess
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