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Across the Spanish Main, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: William Rainey
Release Date: January 29, 2008 [EBook #24454]
Language: English
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Across the Spanish Main
CHAPTER ONE.
HOW ROGER TREVOSE AND HARRY EDGWYTH MADE A CERTAIN COMPACT.
"Now now, Roger, my lad; what are you thinking of?" These words were addressed to a tall, fair young man of about eighteen or nineteen years of age, who was standing on Plymouth Hoe, gazing earnestly at the Sound and the evolutions of certain vessels which had just entered it round Penlee Point.
The speaker was a lad of about the same age, but shorter in height, sturdier in build, and altogether more robust and healthy-looking than his companion, who belonged rather to the class of dreamers than that of workers.
The time was a bright summer morning in the month of June, in the year 1586; and although the great Armada--which Philip of Spain fondly believed was to crush England--was as yet und