Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd, 1877- [from Old Catalog]
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" All hands ashore in the small boats. Tie hawsers to her stern and pull her off ! " This they did, while the French captain, far back in the brush, saw it and fairly boiled with disappoint- ment and rage. " Zees Wright," he blustered. " One cannot out- weet heem." So the privateer was towed into the harbor of Leg- horn, where all the English merchants cried : "Good! Good! Now we have a true man to fight our battles ! Huzza for Fortunatus Wright ! " The French were furious, while at the island ...of Malta (where were numerous French, Spanish, Aus- trian and English traders) the feeling grew intense. Here the Austrians sided with the English and several duels were fought by angry officers, as crafty Fortu- natus Wright continued to send in his prizes. Finally the French merchants forwarded a missive to Marseilles, in France, which ran : " Can the French be further humiliated by this cor- sair — this robber — Fortunatus Wright? Let our people fit out a privateer sufficiently large to cope with him, and let her defeat and cripple this fellow.
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