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There were many lesser adventures in which Lafitte, L'Olonnois and I

shared on our voyage through the long ays leading down to the

great river, but of these I make small mention, for, in truth, one

boasts little of one's deeds in piracy after the fact, or of inciting

piracy andaccessories before the fact, the more especially if

such accessories be small but bloodthirsty boys These latter, let me

plead in extenuation of my own sins, already were pirates, and set

upon rapine For reen

corn and other vegetables, aye, even fowls, as part of the natural

returns of their stern calling, I made no remonstrances, not the first

leader unable to restrain his ruthless band, but I eased --quite unknown to them,--sundry silver coins in

cleft sticks, proht find them when, after our departure, they visited the scenes of

ourobtain that,

by the time we had reached the Mississippi River, I was als I learned as we voyaged; as thatPartial would,

when asked, roll over and over upon the ground, or sit up and

bark--things taught him by no man known in his history, so far as

Lafitte could recall it And things I learned regarding birds and

s As to

pirate,