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Title: The pirate, and The three cutters
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848
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Publisher: London (etc.) A. Fullarton and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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m his strainingeyes, he perceived that the schooner had made allsail to the westward. Francisco feeling that he wasthen secure from being picked up by her, again hoistedhis sail with the hope of reaching the ship, which, ifnot scuttled, he intended to remove on board of, andthen make sail for the first port on the coast. Buthardly had the raft regained her way when the horizonwas lighted up, and he perceived that the pirates hadset fire to the vessel. Then it was useless to proceedtowards her; and Francisco again thought of puttingthe head of the raft to the northward, when the ideastruck him, knowing the character and cruelty of thepirates, that there might be some unfortunate peopleleft on board to perish in the flames. He thereforecontinued his course, watching the burning vessel;the flames increased in violence, mounting up to themasts and catching the sails one after the other. Thewind blew fresh, and the vessel was kept beforethe wind—a circumstance that assured Francisco that
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THE ESCAPE. 143 there were people on board. At first she appearedto leave the raft, but, as her sails, one after another,were consumed by the element, so did she decreaseher speed, and Francisco, in about an hour, wasclose to her and under her counter. The ship was now one mass of fire from her bowsto her mainmast; a volume of flame poured from hermain hold, rising higher than her lower masts, andending in a huge mass of smoke carried by the winda-head of her; the quarter-deck was still free fromfire, but the heat on it was so intense, that those onboard were all collected at the taffrail; and therethey remained, some violent, others in mute despair:for the Avengers people, in their barbarity, had cutaway and destroyed all the boats, to prevent theirescape. From the light thrown round the vessel, thoseon board had perceived the approach of Francisco totheir rescue, and immediately that it was under thecounter, and the sail lowered, almost all of them haddescended by ropes, or the ster

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