VERY BOY'S LIBRARY Edition at $1.00 per volume.

The books of EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY were selected by the Library Commission
of the Boy Scouts of America, consisting of George F. Bowerman,
Librarian, Public Library of the District of Columbia; Harrison W.
Craver, Director, Engineering Societies Library, New York City; Claude
G. Leland, Superintendent, Bureau of Libraries, Board of Education, New
York City; Edward F. Stevens, Librarian, Pratt Institute Free Library,
Brooklyn, N.Y., and Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian. Only
such books were chosen by the Commission as proved to be, by _a nation
wide canvas_, most in demand by the boys themselves. Their popularity is
further attested by the fact that in the EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY Edition,
more than a million and a quarter copies of these books have already
been sold.

We know so well, are reminded so often of the worth of the good book and
great, that too often we fail to observe or understand the influence for
good of a boy's recreational reading. Such books may influence him for
good or ill as profoundly as his play activities, of which they are a
vital part. The needful thing is to find stories in which the heroes
have the characteristics boys so much admire--unquenchable courage,
immense resourcefulness, absolute fidelity, conspicuous greatness. We
believe the books of EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY measurably well meet this
challenge.

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA,

[signed] James E. West

Chief Scout Executive.

Contents

Chapter Page

I. The Bold Buccaneers 1

II. Some Masters in Piracy 7

III. Pupils in Piracy 16

IV. Peter the Great 23

V. The Story of a Pearl Pirate 31

VI. The Surprising Adventures of Bartholemy Portuguez 39

VII. The Pirate who could not Swim 49

VIII. How Bartholemy rested Himself 59

IX. A Pirate Author 65

X. The Story of Roc, the Brazilian 72

XI. A Buccaneer Boom 89

XII. The Story of L'Olonnois the Cruel 94

XIII. A Resurrected Pirate 100

XIV. Villany on a Grand Scale