Outing (1885) (14782136332) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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ganhad captured the smaller Spanish ship. The buccaneers now thought to capturethe fort by assault, but it had been so wellrefitted that they were repulsed. Then,as if to show how little they were affectedby that incident they returned to Mara-caibo and compelled the inhabitants togive 20,000 pieces of eight and 500 head ofcattle as a ransom for the town. Having thus secured the last piece ofsilver within reach Morgan added a finalinsult to the unfortunate Spaniards bydividing the plunder, including slaves andwhite women, on the beach in front of thetown and its inhabitants. Then he em-barked, sailed down within view of the fort,went through a feint of landing all his menfor an assault, thus deceiving the Spaniardsinto placing their cannon on the rear wallsof the fort, after which he cleared the en-trance with no loss worth mention, andsailed away to Jamaica. The purchase incoin, plate and jewels amounted, as atPorto Belio, to 250,000 pieces of eightbesides the merchandise and slaves.
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Twentieth century explorers. AT THE EDGE OF CANADA INTHE FAR NORTHWEST BY CLIFTON JOHNSON ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR r;. ^o^HE village where Istopped was smack upagainst the Canadianline. It had been recom-mended to me as quitea busy little burg, butI could not see that it was very different from other small sawmilltowns I had observed from the car windowas I went North. There was the same clus-ter of wooden stores, saloons, churches,lodging-houses and hotels, and a dribble ofresidences for a mile about. The dwellingthat reached a full magnificence of twostories was a rarity. Most people were con-tent with one story, and the house was smallat that. Newness and rawness were veryapparent, and there was a good deal ofthe makeshift about the dwellings. Allthe home premises were snuggly fenced,and the cows and horses were turned looseto browse in the public ways and alongthe railroad tracks and out into the sur-rounding wilds to suit themselves. A large sawmill had burned the yearbefore a