A novel, 1929
Beauvallet
Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, an English privateer, captures a Spanish galleon carrying Don Manuel and his daughter, Dominica.
How it begins
The deck was a shambles. Men lay dead and dying; there was split woodwork, a welter of broken mizzen and sagging sail, dust and grime, and the reek of powder.
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