Wilson's guide to Avalon . romthese the land slopes down more gradually tothe sea, the color of the ground being verybrilliant; a mixture of yellow ochre and burntsienna would perhaps paint the color of thesehills. The whole appearance of this end of theIsland is exceedingly wild and desolate, andthe word which probably best describes it isinhospitable. As we go dow^n the coast and reach LobsterBay the last thing in the world we couldimagine would be that we were right at themouth of the best harbor in the whole Island,or indeed of the whole district. In our youthwe used often to read stories
Wilson's guide to Avalon . romthese the land slopes down more gradually tothe sea, the color of the ground being verybrilliant; a mixture of yellow ochre and burntsienna would perhaps paint the color of thesehills. The whole appearance of this end of theIsland is exceedingly wild and desolate, andthe word which probably best describes it isinhospitable. As we go dow^n the coast and reach LobsterBay the last thing in the world we couldimagine would be that we were right at themouth of the best harbor in the whole Island,or indeed of the whole district. In our youthwe used often to read stories about great necessity for pirates seems to havebeen a secret harbor, one to which they couldretire and which no one else knew about, aharbor which they could enter by a windingpassage and conduct their ship behind thehills where no one who did not know theentrance would have a chance to find must be a high hill close by where one ofthe crew can watch for the fat merchantman 45 WILSONS GUIDE TO AVALOX. Little Harbor sailing up the coast. When the booty has beensecured, there must be a harbor of refugewhere it can be disposed of in due season; andthere must be a sandy beach where the pirateship may be careened and the barnaclesscraped ofT its sides, which might hinder itsswift progress. When chased by revenuecutters it dodges behind an Island and thencompletely vanishes. Such is CatalinaHarbor! It is known that it was used bypirates even as late as the middle of the lastcentury and it seems impossible to believethat there can be another harbor in all theworld so admirably fitted for pirates as Cata-lina Harbor. One might sail a dozen times upand down the coast and never find it; and thepirates who were numerous at one time on thiscoast undoubtediv made use of it. Naturallv they have left no remains behind themexcept perhaps the treasure concealed atTreasure Beach. There are, however, some old shacks stillstanding near the shore of Catalina Harborwhich, it i
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