The Sea Witch by Maturin Murray, Fiction, Action & Adventure

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The ship lives up to her name -- bewitching all those wave-seasoned souls who set eyes upon her: for she is long and sharp, with graceful concave lines and a flattened keel to give her buoyancy and safety over shoals. The Sea Witch proves so capable she even survives a storm that wrecks another -- and her crew manages to rescue many from that beleaguered ship. "We have not even asked you, Captain Ratlin, what trade you are in, " says the rescued mother of the beautiful Miss Huntington, who sits alongside the young commander on the quarter-deck, beneath an awning rigged for their comfort. "Ahem! madam!" hesitated the Sea Witch's young captain, Will Ratlin. "We are -- that is, yes . . . we are on a trading voyage to the coast -- just at the present time!" Captivated by the girl though the captain is, there is business afoot he hesitates to admit -- even as they are arriving at their destination . . . off the coast of Africa, here during the height of the slave trade!