Captain Blood romance sails with daring pirates
The tale follows Peter Blood, a physician deported to Barbados, who becomes a pirate leader at Tortuga. Levasseur aids Blood as they seize ships, rescue Madelon, and face betrayal, with high tension scenes aboard the Cinco Magis renamed Arabella and the Jongvrouw voyage toward the Leeward Islands.
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Peter Blood
Barbadoes
James
Colonel Bishop
Arabella
Diego Despinosa Y Valdez
Bridgetown
Blood
Mary Traill
Mispaniols
Tortuga
Levasseur
Madelon
Woogeren
Arabella Sails North as Dutch Brig Fades From View
Throughout the day the Dutch brig remained in sight then dwindled to a speck on the northern horizon. The Arabella kept a steady course along the northern shores of Hispaniola into night. At dawn the Arabella was alone while La Fou dre veered northeast under full sail. Cahusae offered no protest as Levasseur curses the retreat.
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Levasseur
Ispaniola
la Foudre
Cahusae
Pirate and Dutch Ship Clash on the Atlantic
La Foudre pursues a Dutch vessel as fires and gunshots erupt aboard. Levasseur presses toward his beloved Mademoiselle d Ogeron, killing the Dutch captain in a swift, brutal reward for seizing what is his.
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Cahusac
Mademoiselle
Levasseur
M. d'Ouveron
Henri
la Foudre
Jongvrouw
Mademoiselle d'Ogeron
Mademoiselle Wig
Ian
Canal Flat Road House liquor license notice
Government Liquor Act Notice states that on or after June 20 next, A. I. McKinley will apply to the Liquor Control Board for a license for premises part of Canal Flat Road House at Canal Flat Lot 110 Kootenay District Golden Land Registration District to sell beer by the glass or open bottle for consumption on site. Dated May 22, 1926.
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Liquor Control Board
Canal Flat Road House
Canal Flat
B.C
Kootenay
Golden Land Registration District
British Columbia
Stormtossed Venture Returns To Tortuga For Repairs
Levasseur and his crew capture a prize, the Santiago, with cargo and jewels, sharing spoils with Blood. They plan a return to Tortuga to unload cacao, recruit more sailors, and resume the Maracaibo scheme while awaiting a admiral at Salvatudos. Captain Blood approves the plan despite tension over the prize.
Pirate negotiates ransom off Tortuga beach
On a sunlit Virgin Magra beach Levasseur parleyed with d Ogeron by an improvised tent while two guards held him and his sister hostage. The ransom is set at twenty thousand pieces of eight as a mysterious tall figure in black with silver lace appears above the dunes.
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Magra
Levasseur
Tortuga
d’Ogeron
Mademoiselle
m.Ogeron
d'Oper
M. Mogeron
No objection to new dollar bill, but it will buy a dollar’s worth
The article notes no opposition to the new dollar bill while clarifying its value remains a dollar. It discusses public perception of purchasing power and implies cautious acceptance of the currency change without expanded details.
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