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Leonard Lindsay ;

Chapter 30: Transcriber’s Notes
By Angus B. Reach
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The narrator recounts his transformation from a coastal youth into a buccaneer after being shipwrecked and taken to the West Indies. He joins a band of hunters and privateers, describing life ashore and at sea, raids on enemy vessels, fever and captivity, escapes, and the hunt for sunken treasure. Episodes feature violent shipboard discipline, storms, local legends and a diver's story, encounters with rival crews and pearl fishermen, and periods of imprisonment and rescue. The account alternates action-driven adventure with reflective sketches of comrades, maritime routine, and the harsh realities of Caribbean seafaring.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • pg iii Added comma after: OF MY BOYHOOD, AND HOW
  • pg iv Added missing page number 89
  • pg 6 Changed gallantly. At night-fall to: nightfall
  • pg 7 Changed leeward fore-topsail yardarm to: yard-arm
  • pg 14 Changed would not render up a marevedi to: maravedi
  • pg 16 Changed After which the quarter-master to: quartermaster
  • pg 38 Added period after: hate Jack Spaniard
  • pg 39 Changed spelling of: in the expedition in which l’Olonais to: l’Olonnais
  • pg 43 Changed For the Sea, the mosquito men to: Mosquito
  • pg 76 Changed ‘“Ay, nevvy,” quoth the old captain, to: Nevvy
  • pg 90 Changed therefore of quite sufficent to: sufficient
  • pg 101 Changed which lay close a-beam to: abeam
  • pg 104 Changed I had the midwatch to: mid-watch
  • pg 109 Changed I hope, never bear to: hear
  • pg 137 Changed Will-o’-the Whisp to: Will-o’-the-Wisp
  • pg 142 Changed “Breakers on the weather bow to: ‘Breakers
  • pg 142 Changed all clear with the anchor.” to: anchor.’
  • pg 142 Changed “Down with your helm to: ‘Down
  • pg 143 Changed great labyrinth of sandbanks to: sand-banks
  • pg 149 Changed “So you landed here to: ‘So
  • pg 149 Changed “Call you that seamen’s to: ‘Call
  • pg 152 Changed schooner if you don’t wan’t to: want
  • pg 152 Changed have been allowed on board.” to: board.’
  • pg 156 Changed schooner in the morning.” to: morning.’
  • pg 162 Changed “Where is the dwarf?’ to: ‘Where is the dwarf?’
  • pg 167 Changed sprit of the main-sail to mainsail
  • pg 167 Changed dollars, reals, and marvedis to: maravedis
  • pg 168 Changed And we echood to: echoed
  • pg 168 Changed screamed joyously over-head to: overhead
  • pg 168 Changed glances of the hot sun-light to: sunlight
  • pg 169 Changed wavy bunches of slimy seaweed to: sea-weed
  • pg 171 Changed mass of slushy seaweed to: sea-weed
  • pg 172 Changed him very nervously, fidgetting to: fidgeting
  • pg 176 Changed Meantine the sky was growing to: Meantime
  • pg 177 Added letter e after: dwarf as we heard this. H
  • pg 191 Changed chapter heading DICE IS KEELHAULED to: KEEL-HAULED
  • pg 193 Changed towards the stern, which heightenng to: heightening
  • pg 208 Added period after: and there was silence
  • pg 212 Changed while below was a great beauffet to: buffet
  • pg 214 Added quote after: sign that the waters are abated.
  • pg 218 Changed trust we may say our vepsers to: vespers
  • pg 225 Changed Tomorrow I was to appear to: To-morrow
  • pg 225 Changed out a squadron of their armadillos. to: armadilloes
  • pg 229 Changed at the rate of a brass marvedi to: maravedi
  • pg 232 Changed in the harbour of Cathagena to: Carthagena
  • pg 232 Changed rescue single-handed, griped to: gripped
  • pg 233 Removed repeated word from: pirate shall die the the
  • pg 236 Removed repeated word from: and which shall shall now be rehearsed
  • pg 242 Changed pretended to be, in some agitatation to: agitation
  • pg 244 Changed which I eagerly asisted to: assisted
  • pg 251 Changed track to tell of who has cleft to: left
  • pg 257 Added missing word in: I have landed from a vessel the bay
  • pg 263 Added missing chapter title: THE FAMILY OF THE SPANISH MERCHANT.
  • pg 265 Changed devil incarnate, whom they call Mountbars to: Montbars
  • pg 266 Changed ‘Ay, verily,” to: ‘Ay, verily,’
  • pg 267 Changed he answered that tomorrow to: to-morrow
  • pg 268 Changed arching of her dark eye-brows to: eyebrows
  • pg 272 Changed I will marry only you.” to: you.’
  • pg 275 Changed “Eavesdropper!’ to: ‘Eavesdropper!’
  • pg 277 Added quote after: everywhere for Joseffa, but——
  • pg 280 Changed Spaniard would keep all to himseif to: himself
  • pg 280 Changed these adventurers oft-times to: ofttimes
  • pg 317 Changed from sun-down to sun-rise to: sundown to sunrise
  • pg 325 Removed repeated word from: even the the most skilful
  • pg 329 Changed Disco himself, a Musquito Indian to: Mosquito
  • pg 332 Added period after: firing pistols in the air
  • pg 334 Changed The Mosquitto man merely shrugged to: Mosquito
  • pg 341 Changed thickened speech and blood-shot to: bloodshot
  • pg 343 Changed short run down by the Mosquitto coast to: Mosquito
  • pg 346 Changed rules of privateers-men to: privateersmen
  • pg 348 Changed pitiful hound of a Portugee to: Portuguese
  • pg 349 Changed from the mizenmast to: mizen-mast
  • pg 349 Changed teach a cowardly Portugee to: Portuguese
  • pg 350 Changed and his ancles to: ankles
  • pg 361 Changed Tonquil entered it unbidden. to: Torquil
  • pg 362 Changed single quote to double after: and bidding, shall overwhelm him.
  • pg 362 Changed “Look you, Torquil Randa,’ to: ‘Look you, Torquil Randa,’
  • pg 362 Changed “whoso in this galley to: ‘whoso in this galley
  • pg 372 Changed was that villainous Portuguee to: Portuguese
  • pg 381 Changed avoid all pirates, flebustiers to: flibustiers
  • pg 383 Changed and whom they called ‘Captain to: “Captain
  • pg 388 Added quote before: Well, captain, you know
  • pg 388 Added quote after: Oxford Road shall cry,
  • pg 391 Changed taken under stout L’Olonnais to: l’Olonnais
  • pg 392 Changed ‘Here be what I like,’ voicferated to: vociferated
  • pg 392 Changed shirks overboard after the Portuguee to: Portuguese
  • pg 397 Changed ‘Amen! am en!’ to: amen
  • pg 399 Changed Dios, the great head-land to: headland
  • pg 406 Added quote after: near me a broken boat.
  • pg 422 Changed Spanish craft we wanted to carry to Jamaics to: Jamaica
  • pg 424 Added hyphen to: cruise of the Will-o’-the Wisp
  • pg 426 Added quote after the letter o in: and the ‘Will-o-the-Wisp’