worthy
of admiration. Yet I have not intended to make him an admirable figure.
To do that would be to falsify history and disregard the artistic
canyons. So I have tried to show him as he was; great and brave, small
and mean, skilful and able, greedy and cruel; and lastly, in his crimes
and punishment, a coward.

And if a mere romance may have a lesson, here in this tale is one of a
just retribution, exhibited in the awful, if adequate, vengeance finally
wreaked upon Morgan by those whom he had so fearfully and dreadfully
wronged.

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., _December, 1902_.

NOTE.--The date of the sack of Panama has been advanced to comply
with the demands of this romance.

_TABLE OF CONTENTS_

BOOK I.

HOW SIR HENRY MORGAN IN HIS OLD AGE RESOLVED TO GO A-BUCCANEERING
AGAIN.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--Wherein Sir Henry Morgan made good use of the
ten minutes allowed him 25

II.--How Master Benjamin Hornigold, the One-Eyed,
agreed to go with his old Captain 45

III.--In which Sir Henry Morgan finds himself at the head
of a crew once more 65

IV.--Which tells how the _Mary Rose_, frigate, changed
masters and flags 81

BOOK II.

THE CRUISE OF THE BUCCANEERS AND WHAT BEFEL THEM ON THE SEAS.

CHAPTER PAGE

V.--How the _Mary Rose_ overhauled three Spanish treasure
ships 97

VI.--In which is related the strange expedient of the
Captain and how they took the great galleon 115

VII.--Wherein Bartholomew Sawkins mutinied against
his Captain and what befel him on that account 128

VIII.--How they strove to club-haul the galleon and failed
to save her on the coast of Caracas 145

BOOK III.

WHICH TREATS OF THE TANGLED LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE PEARL OF CARACAS.

CHAPTER PAGE

IX.--Discloses the hopeless passion between Donna Mercedes
de Lara and Captain Dominique Alvarado,
the Commandante of La Guayra