Excerpt from Buff and Blue: Or the Privateers of the Revolution, a Tale of Long Island Sound The ship lay some sixteen or eighteen miles to the eastward of the Bahamas, when one morning, the third since she was becalmed, a small brig was observed stealing around the nearest island, under sweeps. There was nothin in the appearance of the vessel itsel to give rise to suspicions in the minds of those who were on board the Kat rina, but as the brig stole gradually towards them, Mynheer Vandamme began uneasily to watch her creep ing course. My glass said the Mynheer to his cabin boy, as he grew more and more uneasy. The boy immediately appeared with a bumper of Hollands and wa ter, for it had been the skipper's cus tom to drink at this hour. My spy-glass, you dog! But stay, as you have brought that, give it to me, and bring the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.