Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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lling to buy every-thing which could be brought from Europe.They were fond of good wine, good groceries,good firearms and ammunition, fine cutlasses,and, very often, good clothes in which theycould disport themselves when on shore. Butthey had peculiar customs and manners; andalthough they were willing to buy as much asthe French traders had to sell, they could notbe prevailed upon to pay their bills: A pirateis not generally the sort of man who cares topay his bills. When he gets goods at a store,he wants them charged. That this was the state of feeling on the isl-and of Tortuga was discovered before very THE BUCCANEERS OF OUR COAST. 28l long by the French mercantile agents, whothen applied to the mother-country for assist-ance in collecting the debts due them; and abody of men, who might be called collectors, and after a time the work of endeavoring tocollect debts from pirates was given up, andas there was no profit in carrying on businessin this way, the mercantile agency was also
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in a small boat filled with some of his trusty men roc rowed quietly into the port. (see page 284.) or deputy sheriffs, was sent out to the island.But although these officers were armed withpistols and swords, as well as with authority,they could do nothing against the buccaneers;Vol. XXV.—36. given up, and its officials were ordered to sellout everything they had on hand, and to comehome. There was, therefore, a sale for whichcash payments were demanded, and there was 282 THE BUCCANEERS OF OUR COAST. (Feb. a great bargain-day on the island of Tortuga.Everything was disposed of: the stock of mer-chandise on hand, the tables, the desks, thestationery, the bookkeepers, the clerks, andthe errand-boys. The living items of the stockon hand were considered to be property andwere sold as slaves. John Esquemeling was bought by one ofthe French officials who had been left on theisland, and he described his new master as averitable fiend. He was worked hard, half fed,treated cruelly in many w

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