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Title: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Author: Frank Richard Stockton

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BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS

by

FRANK R. STOCKTON

Illustrated

[Illustration: "The pirates climbed up the sides of the man-of-war as if
they had been twenty-nine cats."--Frontispiece.]

[Illustration]

Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers
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Copyright, 1897-1898,
By the Century Co.
Copyright, 1898, 1926,
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1898; September, 1905; May, 1906; April, October, 1908;
October, 1910; March, 1913; September, 1914; January,
1915; October, 1917.
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