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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

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Across the Spanish Main, by Harry Collingwood.

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This book, of average length, is set at the end of the sixteenth
century, when the English were in a state of war against the Spanish.
The heroes of the story are two boys from Devon, a county in the
south-west of England. They set off with a view to repairing the
fortunes of the family of one of them, by chasing and capturing Spanish
treasure ships.

Their adventures are many and various, and include being captured by a
famous pirate. They are also, later on in the book, condemned to be
burnt to death by the Inquisition. Luckily they are able to escape this
disagreeable outcome.

They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve,
but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to
the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end.

This is a good book, and one which makes a very nice audiobook.

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ACROSS THE SPANISH MAIN, BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD.

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 morn