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

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HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

Established 1817

AN ATTACK ON A GALLEON

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

CONTENTS

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

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

Howard Pyle’s
Book of Pirates