The Blackmore country . t, the jewels, it was said, were still in theneighbourhood. The last recorded instance of this shamefulpractice on the north-west coast of Devonoccurred in 1846, at Welcomb, near Hartland,where a vessel and her ill-fated crew wereruthlessly sacrificed to the cupidity of heartlesslocal wreckers. By the way, Blackmores accountof a wreck in the Maid of Sker is perhaps foundedon the circumstance that at the commencementof the great war two transports from the FrenchWest India islands, laden with black prisoners,were driven ashore at Rapparee Cove, manylives being lost, whil
The Blackmore country . t, the jewels, it was said, were still in theneighbourhood. The last recorded instance of this shamefulpractice on the north-west coast of Devonoccurred in 1846, at Welcomb, near Hartland,where a vessel and her ill-fated crew wereruthlessly sacrificed to the cupidity of heartlesslocal wreckers. By the way, Blackmores accountof a wreck in the Maid of Sker is perhaps foundedon the circumstance that at the commencementof the great war two transports from the FrenchWest India islands, laden with black prisoners,were driven ashore at Rapparee Cove, manylives being lost, whilst, afterwards, gold and pearlswere washed about among the shingle. Rapparee Cove is at Ilfracombe, whichBlackmore describes as a little place lyingin a hole, and with great rocks all around it,fair enough to look at it, but more easy to falldown than to get up them (Maid of Sker, chapterlxv.). Historically, Ilfracombe has not much ofinterest save the escapades of the saint-likeCavalier, Sir Francis Doddington, who in *.
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