ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryOver on the back the same hand had written this further information:– `Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N of N.N.E. `Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E. `Ten feet. `The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of […]
The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries. There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books; but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two. On the 12th of June, […]
`Heard of him!’ cried the squire. `Heard of him, you say! He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Blackbeard was a child to Flint. The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him, that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman. I’ve seen his top – sails with these eyes, of […]
The supervisor stood up straight and stiff, and told his story like a lesson; and you should have seen how the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at each other, and forgot to smoke in their surprise and interest. When they heard how my mother went back to the inn, Dr Livesey fairly slapped his […]
I thanked him heartily for the offer, and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were. By the time I had told mother of my purpose they were all in the saddle. `Dogger,’ said Mr Dance, `you have a good horse; take up this lad behind you.’ As soon as I was mounted, […]
