Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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Howard Pyle's
Book of Pirates
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HOWARD PYLE
HOWARD PYLE’S BOOK OF PIRATES
MEN OF IRON
A MODERN ALADDIN
PEPPER AND SALT
THE RUBY OF KISHMOOR
STOLEN TREASURE
THE WONDER CLOCK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Established 1817
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AN ATTACK ON A GALLEON
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Howard Pyle's
Book of Pirates
Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson
Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York & London
| Page | ||
| Foreword by Merle Johnson | xi | |
| Preface | xiii | |
| I. | Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main | 3 |
| II. | The Ghost of Captain Brand | 39 |
| III. | With the Buccaneers | 75 |
| IV. | Tom Chist and the Treasure Box | 99 |
| V. | Jack Ballister's Fortunes | 129 |
| VI. | Blueskin, the Pirate | 150 |
| VII. | Captain Scarfield | 187 |
| VIII. | The Ruby of Kishmoor | 210 |
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| An Attack on a Galleon | Frontispiece | |
| On the Tortugas | Facing p. | 6 |
| Capture of the Galleon | Facing p.„ | 10 |
| Henry Morgan Recruiting for the Attack | Facing p.„ | 14 |
| Morgan at Porto Bello | Facing p.„ | 16 |
| The Sacking of Panama | Facing p.„ | 20 |
| Marooned | Facing p.„ | 26 |
| Blackbeard Buries His Treasure | Facing p.„ | 32 |
| Walking the Plank | Facing p.„ | 36 |
| “Captain Maltoe Shot Captain Brand Through the Head” | Facing p.„ | 40 |
| “She Would Sit Quite Still, Permitting Barnaby to Gaze” | Facing p.„ | 68 |
| Buried Treasure | Facing p.„ | 76 |
| Kidd on the Deck of the “Adventure Galley” | Facing p.„ | 84 |
| Burning the Ship | Facing p.„ | 92 |
| Who Shall Be Captain? | Facing p.„ | 104 |
| Kidd at Gardiner’s Island | Facing p.„ | 108 |
| Extorting Tribute from the Citizens | Facing p.„ | 116 |
| “Pirates Used to Do That to Their Captains Now and Then” | Facing p.„ | 124 |
| “Jack Followed the Captain and the Young Lady up the Crooked Path to the House” | Facing p.„ | 132 |
| “He Led Jack up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel” | Facing p.„ | 136 |
| “The Bullets Were Humming and Singing, Clipping Along the Top of the Water” | Facing p.„ | 142 |
| “The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury” | Facing p.„ | 146 |
| So the Treasure Was Divided | Facing p.„ | 154 |
| Colonel Rhett and the Pirate | Facing p.„ | 162 |
| The Pirate's Christmas | Facing p.„ | 174 |
| “He Lay Silent and Still, with His Face Half Buried in the Sand” | Facing p.„ | 182 |
| “There Cap’n Goldsack Goes, Creeping, Creeping, Creeping, Looking for His Treasure Down Below!” | Facing p.„ | 186 |
| “He Had Found the Captain Agreeable and Companionable” | Facing p.„ | 190 |
| The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow | Facing p.„ | 196 |
| Then the Real Fight Began | Facing p.„ | 200 |
| “He Struck Once and Again at the Bald, Narrow Forehead Beneath Him” | Facing p.„ | 206 |
| Captain Keitt | Facing p.„ | 212 |
| How the Buccaneers Kept Christmas | Facing p.„ | 224 |
| The Burning Ship | Facing p.„ | 236 |
| Dead Men Tell No Tales | Facing p.„ | 240 |
| “I Am the Daughter of That Unfortunate Captain Keitt” | Facing p.„ | 244 |
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Howard Pyle’s
Book of Pirates
Book of Pirates
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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