The Pirate Woman

A great unrest brooded over mountain and forest; the blue Caribbean lay hushed andglaring, as if held in leash by a power greater than that which ordered its daily ebb andflow.Men moved or stood beneath the trees on the cliffside in attitudes of supreme awe orgrowing uneasiness, according to their kind: for among them were numbered Spaniard andBriton, creole and mulatto, Carib and octoroon, with coal-black negroes enough tooutnumber all the rest-and it was upon these last that profound awe ...