[1] Bradish was a pirate whose actions were blended in the popular
mind with those of Kidd. He was boatswain of a ship which sailed
from England in 1697, and which, like Kidd's, bore the name of the
Adventure. In the absence of the captain on shore, he seized the
ship and set out on a piratical cruise. After amassing a fortune,
he sailed for America and deposited a large amount of his wealth
with a confederate on Long Island. He was apprehended in Rhode
Island, sent to England, and executed.
[2] A small cove in the East River two miles north of Corlear's
Hook.
"Upon a dark night many years ago, as Black Sam was returning from
fishing in Hell Gate--"
Here the story was nipped in the bud by a sudden movement from the
unknown, who, laying his iron fist on the table, knuckles downward,
with a quiet force that indented the very boards, and looking
grimly over his shoulder, with the grin of an angry bear,--
"Hearkee, neighbor," said he, with significant nodding of the head,
"you'd better let the buccaneers and their money alone; they're not
for old men and old women to meddle with.
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