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With Clive in India

CHAPTER 15: The Pirates' Hold
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Go right at them, and they're done for.
"Look, the pirate fleet are already sailing away." "And do you think the English will take the fort, yer honor ?" "I don't know, Tim.

The place is tremendously strong, and built on a rock.

There are guns which bear right down on the ships, if they venture in close, while theirs will do but little damage to these solidly built walls.

Suwarndrug ought to resist a fleet ten times as strong as that before us." "Shure then, yer honor, and will we have to remain here all our lives, do ye think ?" "No, Tim, I hope not.

Besides, I think that we ought to be able to render some assistance to them." "And how will we do it, yer honor?
You have but to spake the word, and Tim Kelly is ready to go through fire and water; and so is Hossein.


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