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Kate Bonnet

CHAPTER XXV
13/17

There's room enough for all, and he and the Scotchman must go back with us.

The Governor shall deal with him; and, whether it be on my estate or behind strong bars, he shall spend the rest of his days upon the island of Jamaica, and so know the sea no more." He was very much roused, this good merchant, and when he was roused he was not slow to act.
The captain of the Belinda was very willing to make a profitable voyage back to Jamaica, but his vessel must be well laden before he could do this.

Goods enough there were at Belize for that purpose, for Blackbeard's supplies were all for sale, and his chief clerk, Bonnet, had the selling of them.

So, all parties being like-minded, the Belinda soon began to take on goods for Kingston.
Stede Bonnet superintended everything.

He was a good man of business, and knew how to direct people who might be under him.


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