The Treasure of Barracuda by Llanos Campos

Author:Llanos Campos [Campos, Llanos]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2016-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Old Phineas did me a favor: if he hadn’t included the warning from Khaled about “only someone small and thin could fit,” I would have been left behind on the ship. It was a dangerous excursion, and the other pirates didn’t want to take me along. But I was the smallest person on the crew. Well, the truth is, I wasn’t that much smaller than Russian Kitty, but he wouldn’t let go of the mast, even when threatened with a dunking into boiling water. Such was his terror about everything that had to do with Fung Tao and his coffer.

The Southern Cross dropped anchor in an uninhabited area to quell the suspicions of the French detachment billeted on the island. We were six who disembarked—Barracuda, Nuño, the Whale, One-Eyed Boasnovas, Erik the Belgian, and I—like the six who had stolen the chest from the Dragon’s Blood. I don’t know if the captain did this on purpose, but I like these kinds of coincidences.

We crossed a thick and humid jungle. We were eaten alive by enormous mosquitoes that made a deafening buzz when they flew. That’s how our misfortunes began when a mosquito bit Boasnovas on the eyelid of his only eye, and the bite swelled up into such a large welt that he was now truly blind. We couldn’t send him back because he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face, so the captain ordered me to take care of him and to guide him through the underbrush. Poor Boasnovas fell often, banging his head against branches and constantly sticking his feet into stinking puddles. At first, it made me laugh, but soon it wasn’t funny because with him walking behind me and holding onto my shoulder, when he stumbled, we both stumbled. But I couldn’t get mad; I would look at him and see that single eye, which had swelled bigger and bigger until it looked like a peach, and I just couldn’t stop laughing.

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