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id: 43771
author: Starr, Ida May Hill
title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
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summary:
  Once upon a time, in the far-off golden days, when the Divine in Creation had not been quite forgot, there came to this shore a band of men,--not faultless, no, not faultless--but great men for a' that, who, with glittering cross aloft, christened this fair land after the blessed Trinity. The idle hands were clasping rich harvests unsown, rich treasures in gold and silver glittered upon her fingers, and following the sweep of her green mantle, there was a race of warm-hearted children, within whose being there was the making of great men and women.


id: 43770
author: Starr, Ida May Hill
title: Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
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words: 43938
sentence: 1686
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summary:
  Now had I been more familiar with the rare though limited treasures of West Indian literature, I would not have marvelled at the glorious mountain summits of Martinique that day we came to picturesque St. Pierre; I might have said to my companion: Ah! here they are, quite as I expected; old, old friends; little white city, square cathedral tower, narrow, hilly streets; above and beyond little irregular fields--all hanging to the mountainside as they should! The little blue map of the West Indies given to me at our departure, which same map has lain very snugly between the unopened pages of my journal until to-day, shows me, as for the first time I unfold the wrinkled paper, that we have just passed Watling's Island (the San Salvador of the early explorers) and a lot of other little islands; while a row of tiny dots shows that we are somewhere near the Tropic of Cancer.


id: 26690
author: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
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title:
  The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

summary:
  They found much difficulty in their approach to the city, for within the town the Spaniards had placed many great guns, at several quarters, some charged with small pieces of iron, and others with musket bullets; with all these they saluted the pirates at their approaching, and gave them full and frequent broadsides, firing at them incessantly; so that unavoidably they lost at every step great numbers of men. Here they set down distinctly what sums of money each particular person ought to have for that voyage, the fund of all the payments being what is gotten by the whole expedition; for otherwise it is the same law among these people as with other pirates.


id: 38632
author: Thornbury, Walter
title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 2 (of 3)
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words: 58493
sentence: 2233
flesch: 70
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summary:
  The guides served them well, but brought them at one spot so near to the castle, and in so open and bare a place, that they lost many men by the shot. This skirmishing continued till the evening, when the Buccaneers, who had lost many men, their commander having his leg broken with a cannon shot, began to waver and to think of retiring, having in vain tried to burn down the place with their fireballs, and charged up to the very walls, which they tried in vain to climb, sword in hand.


id: 38633
author: Thornbury, Walter
title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 3 (of 3)
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words: 62359
sentence: 2459
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Amongst other men that consulted Snelgrave was a sailor named Curtis, who, being sick, walked about the deck wrapped in a silk gown. The Spaniards lost many men, and the blood ran out of their scupper holes, but they still cried at parting, A la manana, la partida--(to-morrow, again.)


id: 38631
author: Thornbury, Walter
title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 1 (of 3)
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words: 62688
sentence: 2558
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Having now attained the summit of his wishes, he became, as many greater men have been, intoxicated with power. Many men would have rested satisfied with such a prize, but Pierre knew no Capua, and thought naught done while aught remained to do.


id: 973
author: Pyle, Howard
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words: 73876
sentence: 2810
flesch: 76
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title:
  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main

summary:
  There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels.


id: 32809
author: Rodway, James
title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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sentence: 3481
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The native Americans--The Arawak and the Carib--Their independent spirit--Their country--The character of the Spaniard--He wants to convert the natives to Christianity--A ton of gold--First Spanish settlers in Hispaniola--They ravage the island and are entirely cut off--The second colony oppresses the Indians--Repartimientos--Cruelties to the Indian slaves--Decrease of the population--Slave-hunting in other islands and on the Main--Resistance of the cannibals--Decline of Hispaniola. II. It followed, therefore, that some of the more audacious of the adventurers took up the trade of kidnapping the Indians from other islands and the mainland.


id: 9835
author: Farnol, Jeffery
title: Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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sentence: 4014
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Strong, great men be usually the gentlest, said she. Said he, setting a musquetoon ready to hand and glancing at the primings of his pistols.


id: 19206
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
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words: 108628
sentence: 4299
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Accustomed as the young men were to see great Spanish ships taken by single boats, and a whole fleet submissive before one ship, it seemed to them that with such an armament they could destroy the whole navies of Spain, and even then that little glory would be divided between each vessel. Sir Francis threw himself into the center of the Spanish lines, followed by many other English ships, and thus separated several of the great galleons from their consorts, and then fell to work battering them.


id: 19396
author: Masefield, John
title: On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien
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words: 114370
sentence: 4803
flesch: 78
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summary:
  [Illustration: AN ELIZABETHAN GALLEON] During the reign of Elizabeth, the galleon, or great ship, and the galliasse, or cruiser, grew to gradual perfection, in the hands of our great sailors. If we look upon the galleon or great ship as the prototype of the ship of the line, and on the galliasse as the prototype of the frigate, and on the pinnace as the prototype of the sloop, or corvette, we shall not be far wrong.


id: 55100
author: Trollope, Anthony
title: The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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sentence: 5708
flesch: 77
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summary:
  In the first place, it is for the government to look to them; and then, lest the government should neglect its duty, it is for such men as Lord Brougham to look to the government. Few may probably have been produced who are able even to form an accurate judgment as to the genius of such men as these.


# ent

id: 43770
sid: 396
eid: 4
type: ORG
entity:
  confort d'un hôtel de 1er ordre et par les divertissements que sa situation et ses dépendances offrent au public


