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Title: Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer
A Romance of the Spanish Main

Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady

Illustrator: J. N. Marchand
Will Crawford

Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29316]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Sir Henry Morgan--Buccaneer.]

_Sir Henry Morgan, BUCCANEER_

_A Romance of the Spanish Main_

_BY_

_CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY_

_Author of "For Love of Country," "For the Freedom of the Sea," "The
Southerners," "Hohenzollern," "The Quiberon Touch," "Woven with the
Ship," "In the Wasp's Nest," Etc._

[Illustration]

_Illustrations by J.N. MARCHAND and WILL CRAWFORD_

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
THE PEARSON PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1903, IN
GREAT BRITAIN

[_All rights reserved_]

_Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer_ _Issued October, 1903_

_TO MY ONLY BROTHER_

COLONEL JASPER EWING BRADY

_LATE U.S. ARMY_

"Woe to the realms which he coasted! for there
Was shedding of blood and rending of hair,
Rape of maiden and slaughter of priest,
Gathering of ravens and wolves to the feast;
When he hoisted his standard black,
Before him was battle, behind him wrack,
And he burned the churches, that heathen Dane,
To light his band to their barks again."

SCOTT: "Harold the Dauntless."

_PREFACE_

In literature there have been romantic pirates, gentlemanly pirates,
kind-hearted pirates, even humorous pirates--in fact, all sorts and
conditions of pirates. In life there was only one kind. In this book
that kind appears. Several presentations--in the guise of novels--of
pirates, the like of which never existed on land or sea, have recently
appeared. A perusal of these interesting romances awoke