. America, picturesque and descriptive. )art of Star Island is thebroken monument to John Smith, put up by some ofhis admirers not long ago, bearing the three Moslemlieads re])resenting the Turks he had slain, but van- (3o0port Cburcb, Star 1lslan&, tslcof TIIK ISLES OF SHOALS. 235 dais liave riiinod it. T\\o (rnnlimtivc fort defending?Star Island in eiili)iii;d tinu-s has been abandonedmore tlian a century, and nestling beneath it is liieold graveyard, part of the walls remaining, and afew dilapidated gravestones. All the original inhab-itants of the island are dead, their descendant
. America, picturesque and descriptive. )art of Star Island is thebroken monument to John Smith, put up by some ofhis admirers not long ago, bearing the three Moslemlieads re])resenting the Turks he had slain, but van- (3o0port Cburcb, Star 1lslan&, tslcof TIIK ISLES OF SHOALS. 235 dais liave riiinod it. T\\o (rnnlimtivc fort defending?Star Island in eiili)iii;d tinu-s has been abandonedmore tlian a century, and nestling beneath it is liieold graveyard, part of the walls remaining, and afew dilapidated gravestones. All the original inhab-itants of the island are dead, their descendants scat-tered, and fashionable pleasuring now dominates thisreef and its restless waters. As might be expected, a ])laeo like these islandswas a favorite haunt for pirates in the colonial them cruised Ca[)tain Kidd, the notoriouslilackbeard, and Hawkins, Phillips, Low, Ponad, andother famous pirates, and in fact the ghost of one ofKidds men is said to still haunt Appledore. Manyand bold were the gentry who in those days hoistedthe Jolly Roger flag, with its grinning skull andcross-bones, and cruised in this picturesrpie regionfor glory and plunder. It was near the route be-tween Boston and the Provinces and to Europe, andhence the valuable prey
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