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Title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Author: Howard I. Pyle

Release Date: October 10, 2008 [EBook #26862]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Challenge
Studio April 7 1903.
H. Pyle. del.]

[Illustration:

Howard Pyle's
Book of Pirates

Ye Pirate Bold, as imagined by
a Quaker Gentleman in the--
Farm Lands of Pennsylvania--

Howard Pyle--Chadds Ford
September 13th 1903--]

[Illustration: AN ATTACK ON A GALLEON]

Howard Pyle's

Book of Pirates

Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning
the Buccaneers & Marooners of
the Spanish Main: _From the_
writing & Pictures _of_ Howard
Pyle: _Compiled by_ Merle Johnson

Harper & Brothers _Publishers_

New York & London

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CONTENTS

PAGE

FOREWORD BY MERLE JOHNSON xi

PREFACE xiii

I. BUCCANEERS AND MAROONERS OF THE SPANISH MAIN 3

II. THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRAND 39

III. WITH THE BUCCANEERS 75

IV. TOM CHIST AND THE TREASURE BOX 99

V. JACK BALLISTER'S FORTUNES 129

VI. BLUESKIN, THE PIRATE 150

VII. CAPTAIN