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ocr>   as the _Clcade_, which Jack knew to mean a locust
fix>   as the _Cicade_, which Jack knew to mean a locust
and that her home port was in the Bahamas, hot-bed
of the smuggler league, Bimini, in fact,
being its chief port of departure.

"What're we goin' to do with this chap?" Perk
was asking. "We don't want him to give us the
slip, since he's the on'y prisoner we got, do we,
partner?"

"I reckon not, brother, and to make certain
that doesn't happen we'll have to tie him up or
fasten him to the mast here while we finish looking
around. I hope to run across the ship's
papers, if they've got any such things aboard."

"Leave that to me, Jack, I'm some punkins
when it comes to splicin' up a prisoner o' war,
so he can't break away." Perk proved himself a
man of his word by securing a piece of rope,
wrapping it several times around the ankles of
the seaman, and finishing with a succession of
hard knots such as would require the services
of a sharp knife blade when it came time to liberate
the captive.

The man was a pretty tough looking customer,
thanks to the treatment he had met with in the
merry time the rival parties had had aboard the
sloop, but at least he knew when he was well off
and something in Jack's manner as well as his
voice told him these strangers would go easy

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