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[Calleja <pet...@di...>]

M came to save him from Blackbeard," she cried, her hand nestling in
Uncle Peter's arm. "And look how he came unscathed through that bloody
battle with the pirates in the _Plymouth Adventure_. Why, a cruise on a
raft is merely a frolic after all that." "I would not discourage your
dear dreams, sweet maid," was the gentle response. "And may they be
truer than my own forebodings." Charles Town was more than ever
resentful when it learned from these poor people how the pirate
sailing-master, Ned Rackham, had plotted to get rid of them and how
mournful had been their sufferings after the shipwreck. The one boat
left to them had been too rotten to send along the coast and they had
plunged into a wilderness almost impassable. Meanwhile Governor Johnson,
stirred by this episode, had received word that the province of Virginia
was both ready and anxious to join in an expedition against Blackbeard.
Governor Spottswood of Virginia would be outfitting such craft as he
could get together in the Jam