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In the Indian Ocean, NATO is working with the European Union and many others to police major sea lanes threatened by pirates.
Managing the Next Gold RushWASHINGTON, DC – The International Seabed Authority (ISA) sits perched above the concrete boardwalk of Jamaica’s Kingston Harbor, across the bay from the spot where “Calico Jack” Rackham was once gibbeted as a warning to other eighteenth-century pirates.
At first, she feared that his fishing trawler had sunk or been attacked by pirates.
Surely with some new breed of pirates, exploiting the sea after their own fashion.
And if these pirates--I say pirates out of consideration for the professor's feelings, since he doesn't want us to call them cannibals-- if these pirates think they're going to smother me in this cage without hearing what cusswords spice up my outbursts, they've got another think coming!
Then these folks would go and be pirates until the marriage was over.
Hector said that pirates and other seafaring people generally lashed the rudder to something or other, and hauled in the main top-jib, during severe squalls, and thought we ought to try to do something of the kind; but I was for letting her have her head to the wind.
But none of the pirates smoked or "chewed" but himself.
The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island.
The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly.
Presently Huck said: "What does pirates have to do?"Tom said: "Oh, they have just a bully time--take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships--make 'em walk a plank."
"Who?" said Huck."Why, the pirates."
They made him understand that his poor rags would do to begin with, though it was customary for wealthy pirates to start with a proper wardrobe.
Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar.
The pirates returned to camp.
Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore.
He said, with a great show of cheerfulness: "I bet there's been pirates on this island before, boys.
Tom saw the signs, and fell to cheering up the pirates as well as he could.
This was to knock off being pirates, for a while, and be Indians for a change.
Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates.
CHAPTER XVIIITHAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals.
And you went to bed, and I was so sorry that I took and wrote on a piece of sycamore bark, 'We ain't dead--we are only off being pirates,' and put it on the table by the candle; and then you looked so good, laying there asleep, that I thought I went and leaned over and kissed you on the lips."
To this arms make answer that without them laws cannot be maintained, for by arms states are defended, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, roads made safe, seas cleared of pirates; and, in short, if it were not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchies, cities, ways by sea and land would be exposed to the violence and confusion which war brings with it, so long as it lasts and is free to make use of its privileges and powers.
It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship.
Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.
"These pirates are bold sailors as well as formidable enemies, and we must take measures accordingly."
"Such is my advice," replied Cyrus Harding, "for it is to be feared that Malay pirates have landed on the island!""Captain," asked the sailor, "would it not be a good plan, before setting out, to build a canoe in which we could either ascend the river, or, if we liked, coast round the inland?
But the thought which came naturally to the settlers was, that these strangers could not be Malay pirates, for the chest was evidently of American or European make.
Hallo there, you pirates, brigands, robbers, sons of John Bull!"When Pencroft, being a Yankee, treated any one to the epithet of "son of John Bull," he considered he had reached the last limits of insult.
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