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The crew of the Utopia have worked very hard to prepare for the arduous journey...they are well experienced in the travails of the sea route they will be on and have taken "precautions" against pirates, natives, mutinies, and precarious weather conditions...
Aboard the private vessel are a wealthy gun merchant named Meriwether and his two daughters....Meriwether was well tolerated by the Spanish as he had long been of service to them...One of his daughters, Charlotte, was secretly appalled by her fathers trade and planned to find gainful employment as a governess upon reaching New Orleans,,,while her sister, Roxanne, resembled their father in all ways...
While taking "the air" upon the deck of the Utopia while getting underway...Charlotte overhears a motley group of scruffy, mercenary sailors discussing their evil plots against their fleet....She runs to find their Captain but runs head long into the First Mate who, seeing how visibly upset she is...cajoles her into confiding in him the dastardly plans...the First Mate reports to his Captain and gathers his finest to 'round up the disloyal group of ruffians...who are clapped in the bilge hole til the next morning when a date with the "captains daughter" , as the cat o'nine tails was called...was planned for the next day...Evil plans were thwarted for the time being aboard the Utopia...
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