He said that board could be had with several families that he knew, and that some of the Minorcans took boarders in the winter.
Of course, Rectus wanted to know, right away, what a Minorcan was.

I didn't think it was exactly the place to ask questions which probably had long answers, but Mr.Cholott didn't seem to be in a hurry, and he just started off and told us about the Minorcans.

A chap called Turnbull, more than a hundred years ago, brought over to Florida a lot of the natives of the island of Minorca, in the Mediterranean, and began a colony.

But he was a mean sort of chap; he didn't care for anything but making money out of the Minorcans, and it wasn't long before they found it out, for he was really making slaves of them.

So they just rose up and rebelled, and left old Turnbull to run his colony by himself.
Served him right, too.