. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. T was now September, and theweather was beautiful on the ^tgg^teS^ North Carolina coast. Cap-tain Thomas (late Bonnet) of the Royal James(late Revenge) had always enjoyed cool nightsand invigorating morning air, and therefore itwas that he said to his faithful servitor, BenGreenway, when first he stepped out upon thedeck as his vessel lay comfortably anchored ina little cove in the Cape Fear River, that he didnot remember ever having been in a more pleas-ant harbour. This well-tried pirate captain—Stede Bonnet, as we shall call him, notwithsta
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. T was now September, and theweather was beautiful on the ^tgg^teS^ North Carolina coast. Cap-tain Thomas (late Bonnet) of the Royal James(late Revenge) had always enjoyed cool nightsand invigorating morning air, and therefore itwas that he said to his faithful servitor, BenGreenway, when first he stepped out upon thedeck as his vessel lay comfortably anchored ina little cove in the Cape Fear River, that he didnot remember ever having been in a more pleas-ant harbour. This well-tried pirate captain—Stede Bonnet, as we shall call him, notwithstand-ing his assumption of another name—was in agenial mood as he drank in the morning air. From his point of view he had a right to begenial; he had a right to be pleased with thescenery and the air; he had a right to swear atthe Scotchman, and to ask him why he did notput on a merrier visage on such a sparklingmorning, for since he had first started out as 381 KATE BONNET Captain Thomas of the Royal James he had beena most successful pirate.
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