Well, story theft is a perfectly reasonable piratical thing to do. :-)
Rafael Sabatini quite cheerfully steals Henry Morgan's somewhat farcical adventures in and around Maracaibo and donates them to Captain Blood. (Basically, they got trapped in the lagoon, and had to stage a fake attack on the fort that guarded it from the landward side in order to get the cannon moved so that they could get back out again.) And I have a sneaking suspicion that the exact same tale in one of C S Forester's Hornblower novels as well, except that I appear to have mislaid my Hornblower and so can't go and check it. :-(
Darn it. You realise that I'm probably going to have to dig out my tape of the Errol Flynn Captain Blood and watch it tonight now, don't you?
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Date: 2004-01-06 01:58 pm (UTC)Rafael Sabatini quite cheerfully steals Henry Morgan's somewhat farcical adventures in and around Maracaibo and donates them to Captain Blood. (Basically, they got trapped in the lagoon, and had to stage a fake attack on the fort that guarded it from the landward side in order to get the cannon moved so that they could get back out again.) And I have a sneaking suspicion that the exact same tale in one of C S Forester's Hornblower novels as well, except that I appear to have mislaid my Hornblower and so can't go and check it. :-(
Darn it. You realise that I'm probably going to have to dig out my tape of the Errol Flynn Captain Blood and watch it tonight now, don't you?