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Salute to Adventurers

CHAPTER IV
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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.
But, seeing we are in the city o' Glasgow in the kindly kingdom o' Scotland, I'll be honest with you.

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?
There was a look of friendly humour about this dare-devil which captured my fancy.

I saw in him the stuff of which adventurers are made, and though I was a sober merchant, I was also young.


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