[Gutenberg 21071] • The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba

[Gutenberg 21071] • The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
Authors
Collingwood, Harry
Publisher
Aegypan
Tags
adventure , young adult , sea stories , great britain. royal navy -- juvenile fiction , sailors -- juvenile fiction , pirates -- juvenile fiction
ISBN
9781463801885
Date
2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.29 MB
Lang
en
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This damage, slight as it was, sufficed to effectually rouse Captain Pigot's hasty, irritable temper; and, hurrying the men down from aloft, he ordered the larboard broadside to be manned, and the guns to be directed upon the audacious battery. A couple of well-directed broadsides sufficed to silence its fire, and the boats were then immediately piped away.

But that was not the last of it -- not by half. The rover had a secret - a terrible, *terrible* secret.