32/34 They call me by different names. I have passed for a Dutch skipper, and a Maryland planter, and a French trader, and, in spite of my colour, I have been a Spanish don in the Main. At Tortuga you will hear one name, and another at Port o' Spain, and a third at Cartagena. My father called me Ninian Campbell, and there's no better blood in Breadalbane." What could I do after that but make him a present of the trivial facts about myself and my doings? I saw in him the stuff of which adventurers are made, and though I was a sober merchant, I was also young. |