Why is Blackbeard's dinghy covertly rowing inland?

And why is it riding so low in the water?

Ralph D. Payne, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, Blackbeard Buccaneer, part four of eight by Ralph D. Payne.

Chapter 8, the episode of the Winding Creek

The singular discovery of Bill Saxby's jacket was like a shock to drive all else out of their

minds. Now they found that it had been thrown over a jug of water in a bag of beef and biscuit

stowed in the bow. This solved one pressing problem, and they nibbled the hard ration

while debating the situation. It was agreed that they could not honorably run away with the Peerog

if it really belonged to Steed Bonnet's men, who must have come on foot along the higher

ground, back of the coast, and descended the creek in the canoe, stolen or purchased from

Indians met by chance. Granted this much, it was a fair conjecture that Captain Bonnet's ship was

in some harbor, not many leagues distant, and that he knew where to find Blackbeard's rendezvous

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