Black Spice

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P.S.: Вычитано поелику возможно (ancient-skipper).

LIKE a gaunt wolf on the prowl, the American privateer Jasper, a weathered brig of eight guns, lazed along under shortened sail. In the cool predawn blackness, as the tropical stars began winking out one by one, she was hushed except for the protesting creak of tackle and the sibilant whispering of phosphorescent water at her prow. On her larboard bow, night-veiled and hidden over the horizon, lay lush, mountainous Jamaica, the principal British bastion in the Caribbean. In Kingston harbor lay merchantmen, the sheep the commerce raider sought, and there, too, were the sharp-toothed watchdogs, warships of the West India Squadron.

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