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Auch furchtbare Banditen hatte es gegeben: Gesindel, das in mondlosen Nächten irreleitende Strandfeuer entzündete, damit arglose Segelschiffe auf Grund liefen und von ihnen ausgeplündert werden konnten.
There had even been unspeakable cutthroats who, on moonless nights, would set a beach fire on the back shore to encourage a sailing vessel to believe it was rounding a light. Thereby the ship might come around for port too soon and run aground on a shoal. Whereupon these fiends would plunder the foundering vessel.
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