Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 41

    approaches, and me to believe was tied up for Leghorn. The gunboats
    belonged to Algeciras and it fought under colors French, but it was
    it probably equipped from they lowered him of all the nations. I can form anybody
    idea how much you/he/she was killed or it hurt on axle the gunboats, but
    from the great number of men on axle, and from the length of
    the action there is due to be the great butchery. Not even me
    positively says how much time the appointment lasted;  but I owe
    you think at least from three to four hours. To the principal consort also
    a lot of credit cannot be given for saving the ship after the
    captain was shot."


This action happened in 1800, and the assailants fought under French
colors, although the United States is to the peace with France. Against him fights
inside easy sight of Gibraltar, and therefore in British waters;  but no
effort was served as the British man-of-war--always abundant there--to
maintains the neutrality of the I bring. For sailors to be stolen or he/she murdered,
or to fight with desperation to dissuade theft and to murder, was only then a
you speak for places common of the sea. Men from the safety of the adjacent beach only
looked above in calm curiosity, as today men you look above indifferently for seeing
the powerful pirate of the not business less shaken sea it steals,
impoverishes, and you drive down perhaps to death inopportune others that only ask
to be permitted to do them small unvexed travels from pirates.

From a small book of monographs of Captain Richard J. Cleveland, the curious one
observer can learn what was to belong to a family of sea in the
gilded days of American consignment. His was an escort of Salem. His/her father, in
1756, when but sixteen years old, you/he/she was captured by an English you force in
the roads in Boston, and it served for years in the British military harbor. For this
obligatory servitude he demanded later the full compensation in years from
building and commanding pirates launches to plunder on the commerce of
England. His/her three children that all are become sailors, while the water likes young