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Title: Great Pirate Stories

Author: Various

Editor: Joseph Lewis French

Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #27090]

Language: English

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GREAT PIRATE STORIES

EDITED BY

JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH
Editor of "Great Sea Stories," "Masterpieces of Mystery,"
"Great Ghost Stories," etc.

TWO VOLUMES
IN ONE

TUDOR PUBLISHING CO.
NEW YORK

First Printing, November, 1922
Second Printing, January, 1923
Third Printing, November, 1923
Fourth Printing, November, 1929

_Printed in the United States of America_

Copyright, 1922, by Brentano's

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Archaic, dialect and quoted spellings (including inconsistent proper
nouns), in addition to irregular hyphenation, remain as printed. The
oe ligature is shown as [oe], whilst [)a] and [)i] indicate a breve
over the relevant vowel.

Go tell your King, he is King of the Land;
But I am the King of the Sea!

BARBAROSSA TO CHARLES V.

FOREWORD

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is
a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the
sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or
so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on
land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime
adventure--years that added to the map of the world till there was
little left to discover--could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ.
It went out gradually with the settlement and ordering of the far-flung
British colonies. Great Britain, foremost of sea powers, must be
c