Word: shippingo
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...Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod carries the fair maid Moira to the Royal James. Then trouble begins. Half of the treasure is buried on -the sandy dot of land in the Caribbees, dangerous to shippingo the worst blasphemer : "A fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody enough for the best of us. The Author...
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