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Title: The Privateer's-Man
One hundred Years Ago

Author: Frederick Marryat

Release Date: June 7, 2008 [EBook #25719]

Language: English

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THE
PRIVATEER'S-MAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

BY

CAPTAIN MARRYAT.

_SANCTIONED BY THE AUTHOR FOR CONTINENTAL CIRCULATION._

LEIPZIG
BERNH. TAUCHNITZ JUN.
1846.

EXTRACTS FROM THE LOG OF A PRIVATEER'S-MAN.

CHAPTER I.

We cruise off Hispaniola--Capture a French Ship--Continue
our Cruise--Make a Nocturnal Attack upon a Rich Planter's
Dwelling--Are repulsed with Loss.

_To Mistress ----._

RESPECTED MADAM,

In compliance with your request I shall now transcribe from the
journal of my younger days some portions of my adventurous life. When
I wrote, I painted the feelings of my heart without reserve, and I
shall not alter one word, as I know you wish to learn what my feelings
were then, and not what my thoughts may be now. They say that in every
man's life, however obscure his position may be, there would be a
moral found, were it truly told. I think, Madam, when you have perused
what I am about to write, you will agree with me, that, from my
history, both old and young may gather profit, and, I trust, if ever
it should be made public, that, by divine permission, such may be the
result. Without further preface, I shall commence with a narrative of
my cruise off Hispaniola, in the Revenge privateer.

The Revenge mounted fourteen guns, and was commanded by Captain
Weatherall, a very noted privateer's-man. One morning at daybreak we
discovered a vessel from the masthead, and immediately made all sail
in chase, crowding every stitch of canvas. As we nea