| Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...that effect here ; the men being in the hold, and Black-beard seeing few or no hands on board, told his men, that they were all knocked on the head except...three or four, and therefore, says he, " let's jump on-board and cut them to pieces." Whereupon, under the smoke of one of the bottles just mentioned,... | |
| Brigands and robbers - 1846 - 586 pages
...pieces of lead and iron, with a quickmatch in the mouth of them, were thrown into Maynard's sloop. Fortunately, however, the men being in the hold, they...occasion, though they are usually very destructive. Black Beard seeing few or no hands upon deck, cried to his men that they were all knocked on the head... | |
| Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1891 - 688 pages
...in the hold. Black-beard, seeing few or no hands aboard, told his men "that they were all knocked to head, except three or four ; and therefore," says he, " let's jump on board and cut them to pieces." Whereupon, under the smoke of one of the bottles just mentioned, Black-beard enters... | |
| Charles Johnson - History - 2002 - 664 pages
...not that effect here, the men being in the hold. And Black-beard, seeing few or no hands aboard, told his men that They were all knocked on the head except...and therefore, says he, let's jump on board and cut them to pieces. Whereupon, under the smoke of one of the bottles just mentioned, Black-beard enters... | |
| Stephen Brennan - History - 2007 - 808 pages
...in the hold. Black-beard, seeing few or no hands aboard, told his men "that they were all knocked to head, except three or four; and therefore," says he, "let's jump on board and cut them to pieces." Whereupon, under the smoke of one of the bottles just mentioned, Black-beard enters... | |
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