. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. r youto row back to your vessel and take my message;and if you do it not I will sink you all in abunch! Into your boat, sir, and waste not an-other minute. If you are not able to commandyour men, I will keep you here and give thema coxswain who can. Without another word, Bittern scuffled overthe side, and, his boat being brought up, hedropped into it. Now, men, he said, I have a messagefrom Captain Blackbeard to the Revenge; bendto it as I steer that way. Give my pious regards to your Sir Night-cap, shouted Blackbeard. And then, in a stillhigh
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. r youto row back to your vessel and take my message;and if you do it not I will sink you all in abunch! Into your boat, sir, and waste not an-other minute. If you are not able to commandyour men, I will keep you here and give thema coxswain who can. Without another word, Bittern scuffled overthe side, and, his boat being brought up, hedropped into it. Now, men, he said, I have a messagefrom Captain Blackbeard to the Revenge; bendto it as I steer that way. Give my pious regards to your Sir Night-cap, shouted Blackbeard. And then, in a stillhigher tone, he yelled to them that if they dis-obeyed their coxswain and turned their bow13 185 KATE BONNET shoreward he would sink them all to the un-sounded depths of Hades. Without a protest themen pulled vigorously towards the Revenge,w^hile Black Paul, considering it a new affrontto be called i coxswain when he was in realitycaptain, earnestly sent Blackbeard to the sameregions to which he had just referred. 186 CHAPTER XVII AN ORNAMENTED BEARD. T was about the middle of theafternoon when a large boat,well filled, was seen approach-ing the Revenge from Black-beards vessel. As soon as it had become knownthat this chief of all pirates of that day, thisEdward Thatch of England, was really comingon board the Revenge, not one word was utteredamong the crew on the subject of going ashore,although they had been long at sea. The shorecould wait when Blackboard was coming. Evento look upon this doughty desperado would bean honour and a .joy to the brawny scoundrelswho made up the crew of the Revenge. It might have been supposed that everythingupon Captain Bonnets vessel had been madeready for the expected advent of Blackbeard,but nothing seemed good enough, nothing seemedas effectively placed and arranged as it mighthave been; and with execrations and commands,Bonnet hurried here and there, making every- 187 KATE BONNET thing, if possible, more ship-shape than it hadbeen before. Stay
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