The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Caysand Lagoons of Cuba By Harry Collingwood It was a bit puzzling to to work out who or what the Rover was, and what the secret was.
The schippis that on cays war reddy thar Thai tuke, and chargit full of gold but mayr.
There are more of these cays about, and we could land upon one if the wind dropped.
Dessay we shall, among the cays and reefs and little bits of islands yonder.
Even Jack Cockrell, hopeful to the last, was compelled to agree with the crew of the brig that not a solitary man could be seen on these sea-girt cays and it seemed useless to send off a boat to explore them one by one.
But we might fetch one o' them cays or the coast itself if he steers close in to find smooth water.
One of our reasons for seeking Little Wood Cay, which it proved had been close by all the time, was that it is one of the few cays where one can get fresh water.
He also told me more of his manner of finding them, and of the long trips which he had to take in seeking them, to out-of-the-way cays and in dangerous waters.
So about twilight we dropped anchor in another quiet bay, so much like that of the night before, as all the bays and cays are along that coast, that you need to have sailed them from boyhood to know one from another.
We were passing cays of jagged cinder-coloured rock covered with low bushes and occasional palms, very savage and impenetrable.
I had some big turtle around the cays of the Gulf of Mexico, but this creature dwarfed them all.
They seem to have made periodical expeditions to the cays and islands off the coast to fish and collect shellfish, as quantities of net-sinkers, flint chips, potsherds, and broken javelin heads are found on many of the cays.
Fish drying on one of the cays off the coast of Yucatan 26 4.
The privateers whom Modyford had invited to rendezvous in Bluefield's Bay in November 1665 had chosen Captain Mansfield as their admiral, and in the middle of January sailed from the south cays of Cuba for Curaçao.
The summer track was much closer to the shore of Campeache, the fleet threading its way among the cays and shoals, and approaching Vera Cruz by a channel on the south-east.
He had also tired of spotting the little groups of cays that stuck up out of the water here and there.
I mean, if the southern Albuquerque Cays turn out to be just a bust, then where are we?
And I’ll eat my shirt if those southernmost cays there aren’t what he was trying to get over to us.
For a good half hour Dave drilled up and down over the Albuquerque Cayssearching every square inch of them with his eyes.
Maybe this Tracey business and the southern Albuquerque Cays doesn’t add up to a single thing of importance.
In daylight the danger is not nearly so great, because the north-eastern and north-western edges of the shoal are fringed by a number of cays among which the sea breaks heavily, while the whole surface of the shoal is white water.
This was the island of West Caycos, the most westerly of the cays on the bank, and ten minutes later we were under its lee and within less than a cable's length from the beach.
Well, we hauled our wind once more, standing well out to sea, and after a tedious beat of some days we again edged in toward the coast, somewhere near the Boca Grande of the Twelve League Cays on the westernmost side.
The steamer lanes are well charted, but there are a good many cays and islands outside of them--places where the bones of the Andromeda might lie until they rotted before anybody would ever discover them.
The Andromeda was at anchor a short distance from one of the many cays with which the southern Caribbean is dotted; a long, low-lying island plumed with palms and densely jungled with tropical undergrowth.
Are there any cays southeast by south one-quarter south, Rawlins?
However, I'm sailing for the Caicos this evening--if those men are on any of the caysor took to another vessel we'll find them.
The coil was pointing southeast by south one-quarter south and the cays are just about due south by east.
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