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Title: The Rose of Paradise
Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened
to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous
pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island
of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and
now for the first time published

Author: Howard Pyle

Release Date: March 17, 2010 [EBook #31673]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE ROSE OF PARADISE

_Being a detailed account of certain adventures that
happened to Captain John Mackra, in connection
with the famous pirate, Edward England, in
the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna
in the Mozambique Channel; writ
by himself, and now for the
first time published_

BY HOWARD PYLE

AUTHOR OF
"PEPPER AND SALT" "THE WONDER CLOCK" ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1888

Copyright, 1887, by Harper & Brothers.

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_All rights reserved._

TO

LEWIS C. VANDEGRIFT

This Book is Dedicated

BY HIS FRIEND

_THE AUTHOR_

ILLUSTRATIONS.

_"Boat ahoy!" I cried out, and then levelled
my pistol and fired_ Frontispiece

_Mr. Longways looked up under his brown eyes
at me with a very curious leer_ faces 20

_"Captain Mackra," said he, coldly, "you were
pleased to put upon me last night a gross and
uncalled-for insult"_ " 62

_So soon as they saw me they fell to screaming,
and clung to one another_ " 100

_"I am Captain John Mackra" said I, and I
sat down upon the gunwale of the boat_ "