ILLUSTRATIONS
The wreck of the Polly Frontispiece facing page Seamanship was helpless to ward off the attack of the storm that left the brig a sodden hulk 8 Fresh water trickled from the end of the pistol-barrel, and they caught it in a tin cup 16 Volusia off Salem, built at Falmouth, Mass., in 1801, and Wrecked at Cape Cod in 1802 20 The pirate captain boarding the captured Exertion 29 Armed with as many of the aforementioned weapons as they could well sling about their bodies 33 Boats were filled with men whose only thought was to save their skins 56 The brig, which had made a long tack and was now steering straight toward the raft 64 Governor Glass and his residence 97 Woodard raised his empty hands to ask for peace and mercy 112 Wreck of the Grosvenor on the coast of Caffraria 144 Early American ship of the 18th Century 176 Perilous situation of the ship 224 The Charlemagne, a New York packet ship 272 Brig Topaz of Newburyport, built in 1807 305 The brig Olinda of Salem, built in 1825 352 Taking on the pilot in the 18th Century 384
