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"Each of us must find wisdom in his own way. Mine is one way, yours another. Perhaps we each need more of what the other knows." . . . The Lonely Men
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blamour
Member since 4-24-08
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10-26-20, 12:15 PM (Pacific Time) |
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"Alert - Fair Blows the Wind"
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LAST EDITED ON 10-26-20 AT 12:49 PM (Pacific Time) Does anybody know where the mention in FAIR BOLWS THE WIND of the wrecked ship appears? This is the wreck that also shows up in Sackett's Land, the one where Barnabas has the fight with the alligator.I've read too many books and too many LLLT drafts recently and my head is ready to explode. I think I've been reading right past it but I can't find the darn thing! Maybe I've just heard and read LL discussing something that does not exist! |
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- RE: Alert - Fair Blows the Wind,
Les Down Under, 10-26-20, 01:25 PM, (1)
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Falcon, 10-26-20, 04:59 PM, (2)
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blamour, 10-26-20, 08:45 PM, (3)
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Falcon, 10-27-20, 03:44 PM, (4)
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john555, 10-28-20, 03:58 PM, (5)
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cowboybilliards, 11-20-20, 07:09 PM, (9)
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Falcon
Member since 5-4-13
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10-26-20, 04:59 PM (Pacific Time) |
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2. "RE: Alert - Fair Blows the Wind"
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I just skimmed FBTW twice, and didn't see it. Sorry. Falcon
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blamour
Member since 4-24-08
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10-26-20, 08:45 PM (Pacific Time) |
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3. "RE: Alert - Fair Blows the Wind"
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I've gone so far down this rabbit hoe I'm no longer sure what I read and where. The old wrecked ship that is half full of sand and where Barnabas fights the alligator is a clear story location in Sackett's Land. Dad said that he mentioned it again in Fair Blows the Wind and that fans wrote to him connecting the two ... a connection he didn't think anyone would make, he just did it for fun. Sort of. But I can't seem to find it in Fair Blows the Wind. I'm going to have to start reading through yet again. I have a memory of it but it might be a memory of Sackett's Land or of Dad telling me about it. It is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE, however, that the ship he was talking about in his letters was not an abandoned hulk in Fair Blows the Wind. It's possible it was the San Juan de Dios, the ship that was abandoned by the Spanish characters in the beginning of that story. Do we know what happens to the San Juan de Dios? As I remember it drifted away from the sand bank where Tatton Chantry found it when the tide came in. This would fit with my ALERT - TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS post. The story Pim tells about Chantry is followed by the rebellious crewman Johnathan Delve heading off to try to find a rumored Spanish wreck that still may contain some treasure. Chantry left many tons of silver ingots on the San Juan ... and, without being sure that it is the same ship, Barnabas Sackett knows where it is. If anyone has any EVIDENCE BASED ideas I'd love to know them. I'm trying to wrap up all the threads in this Lost Treasures Postscript. |
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Falcon
Member since 5-4-13
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10-27-20, 03:44 PM (Pacific Time) |
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4. "RE: Alert - Fair Blows the Wind"
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In for a penny... The last mention of the San Juan de Dios being sighted is in Chapter 29, where Tatton and Turley eavesdrop on a conversation, in which one of the pirates relates finding and searching the vessel. Leckenbie then takes a few crewmen to search for it, but the inference is they did not find it before running upon Tatton & company, and their subsequent attack. So, the disposition of the ship was not resolved.Falcon |
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