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Title: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Author: Frank Richard Stockton

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BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS
by
FRANK R. STOCKTON
Illustrated

[Illustration: "The pirates climbed up the sides of the man-of-war as if
they had been twenty-nine cats."--Frontispiece.]
[Illustration]

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers New York by arrangement with The
Macmillan Company Copyright, 1897-1898, By the Century Co.
Copyright, 1898, 1926, By the MacMillan Company. All rights
reserved--no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who
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inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and electrotyped July, 1898.
Reprinted November, 1898; September, 1905; May, 1906; April,
October, 1908; October, 1910; March, 1913; September, 1914; January,
1915; October, 1917. Printed in the United States of America

FOREWORD

Tempting boys to be what they should be--giving them in wholesome
form what they want--that is the purpose and power of Scouting. To
help parents and leaders of youth secure books boys like best that are
also best for boys, the Boy Scouts of America organized EVERY
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Bowerman, Librarian, Public Library of the District of Columbia;
Harrison W. Craver, Director, Engineering Societies Library, New
York City; Claude G. Leland, Superintendent, Bureau of Libraries,
Board of Education, New York City; Edward F. Stevens, Librarian,
Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Franklin K. Mathiews,
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by the boys themselves. Their popularity is further attested by the fact
that in the EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY Edition, more than a million and
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We know so well, are reminded so often of the worth of the good book
and great, that too often we fail to observe or understand the influence
for good of a boy's recreational reading. Such books may influence him
for good or ill as profoundly as his play activities, of which they are a
vital part. The needful thing is to find stories in which the heroes have
the characteristics boys so much admire--unquenchable courage,
immense resourcefulness, absolute fidelity, conspicuous greatness. We
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA,
[signed] James E. West
Chief Scout Executive.

Contents
Chapter Page
I. The Bold Buccaneers 1
II. Some Masters in Piracy 7
III. Pupils in Piracy 16
IV. Peter the Great 23
V. The Story of a Pearl Pirate 31
VI. The Surprising Adventures of Bartholemy Portuguez 39
VII. The Pirate who could not Swim 49
VIII. How Bartholemy rested Himself 59
IX. A Pirate Author 65
X. The Story of Roc, the Brazilian 72
XI. A Buccaneer Boom 89
XII. The Story of L'Olonnois the Cruel 94
XIII. A Resurrected Pirate 100
XIV. Villany on a Grand Scale 109
XV. A Just Reward 119
XVI. A Pirate Potentate 132
XVII. How Morgan was helped by Some Religious People 145

XVIII. A Piratical Aftermath 153
XIX. A Tight Place for Morgan 159
XX. The Story of a High-Minded Pirate 171
XXI. Exit Buccaneer; Enter Pirate 192
XXII. The Great Blackbeard comes upon the Stage 200
XXIII. A True-Hearted Sailor draws his Sword 210
XXIV. A Greenhorn under the Black Flag 217
XXV. Bonnet again to the Front 224
XXVI. The Battle of the Sand Bars 233
XXVII. A Six Weeks' Pirate 243
XXVIII. The Story of Two Women Pirates 253
XXIX. A Pirate from Boyhood 263
XXX. A Pirate of the Gulf 277
XXXI. The Pirate of the Buried