Penny Dreadfuls, 1867 · page 117 of 300
Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter — page 117: what you’re looking at
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# Roving Jack, the Pirate Hunter This page contains an illustration and running prose from a Victorian penny dreadful serial (Issue No. 18). The engraving depicts "The Encampment in the Wood," showing several figures in a dramatic scene. The text below describes a moment where a character named Barabbas, apparently a dwarf leader, forbids his men from harming a woman named Nell Peveril and orders them to abstain from plundering valuables on command from "Mynheer Woolfgang." The passage ends with the men creeping forward in single file toward a location called the "Owlet's Roost," described as resembling a serpent wriggling up the hillside.
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.¢ ROVING JACK, THE PIRATE HUNTER. = ey) LEASE, Wy ih ‘ ¢ TA) wee en AAV ALE Tiina Tigt 1.) \\\ TT Wii Ny hw THAN ZIA J} SSS (AIA LWAN + = +4 Tin, \ VA trina) Wo eel), V“ * \ Lm) S| \ Bouvet ‘ ee \ sf H \ y 2) THE ENCAMPMENT IN THE WOOD. As Barabbas finished speaking, there was a low murmur of dissent, Some few of the seamen had seen, others had heard, of Nell Peveril’s matchless beauty ; and there was not a man of the party but would have sold his soul for such a prize, “Who dares so much as speak to her, makes me his foe !” repeated Barabbas. The murmur was hushed in an instant. None cared to brave the dwarf’s revenge. “ And,” continued he, “ Miss Violet Tremaine is No, 18, to be used as gently as possible ; such are my orders, and I will be obeyed.” “And the plunder—the valuables!” asked a voice. ‘‘ Mynheer Woolfgang has commanded that you should abstain from plunder. Forward !’’ They crept forward—one behind another, wind- ing their way upwards. A man, a mile or two out at sea, would have said that a huge serpent was wriggling up towards the “ Owlet’s Roost,” had he seen them moving on in Indian file.