Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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time the buccaneers got back to theirfleet and remained on the coast about threemonths, waiting for some expected Spanishships, which they hoped to capture. They metone, and after a great deal of ordinary fightingand stratagem they boarded and took her, butfound her of little value. Now LOlonnois proposed to his men thatthey should sail for Guatemala; but the bucca-neers, who had expected to make great fortunesin this expedition, were hungry and disap-pointed and wanted to go home, and the greatmajority of them declined to follow LOlonnoisany further. But some declared that they wouldrather die than go home to Tortuga as poor aswhen they left it, and so remained with LOlon-nois on the biggest ship of the fleet, which hecommanded. The smaller vessels now departedfor Tortuga, and LOlonnois sailed for theislands of de las Pertas. Here he ran his bigvessel aground. As it was impossible to get their great vesseloff the sand banks the pirates set to work to THE BUCCANEERS OF OUR COAST. 393
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THE CHIEF BUCCANEER DIVIDING THE BOOTY. break her up and build a boat out of her planks.But when they began the work they had noidea it would take so long to build a boat. ItAvas months before the unwieldy craft was fin-ished, and they occupied part of the time ingardening, planting French beans, which wereripe in about six weeks, and gave them somefresh vegetables. They also had some of theships stores and made bread, thus managingto live very well. LOlonnois was never intended by nature toVol. XXV.—50. be a boat-builder, and when the boat was fin-ished it was discovered that it had been plannedso badly that it would not hold them all, so theydrew lots to see who should embark in her, forone half of them would have to stay until theothers came back. Of course LOlonnois wentin the boat, and he reached the mouth of theNicaragua River. There his party was attackedby some Spaniards and Indians, who killed morethan half of them and prevented the othersfrom landing. LOlonnois and the res

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