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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, by Frank Richard Stockton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts Author: Frank Richard Stockton Release Date: November 30, 2005 [eBook #17188] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, David Yingling, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) "The pirates climbed up the sides of the man-of-war as if they had been twenty-nine cats."—Frontispiece. Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts by FRANK R. STOCKTON Decoration Illustrated GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers NEW YORK by arrangement with The Macmillan Company Copyright, 1897-1898, By THE CENTURY CO. Copyright, 1898, 1926, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved—no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and electrotyped July, 1898.

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The Project Gutenberg eBook,
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our
Coasts, by Frank Richard Stockton
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Title: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Author: Frank Richard Stockton
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Language: English
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"The pirates climbed up the sides of the man-of-war as if
they had been twenty-nine cats."—Frontispiece.
Buccaneers and Pirates
of Our Coasts
by
FRANK R. STOCKTON
Decoration
Illustrated
GROSSET & DUNLAP, PublishersNEW YORK
by arrangement with The Macmillan Company
Copyright, 1897-1898,
By THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1898, 1926,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
All rights reserved—no part of this book may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who
wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion
in magazine or newspaper.
Set up and electrotyped July, 1898. Reprinted November, 1898; September,
1905; May, 1906; April, October, 1908; October, 1910; March, 1913;
September, 1914; January, 1915; October, 1917.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOREWORD
Tempting boys to be what they should be—giving them in wholesome form
what they want—that is the purpose and power of Scouting. To help parents
and leaders of youth secure books boys like best that are also best for boys, the
Boy Scouts of America organized EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY. The books
included, formerly sold at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2.00 but, by special
arrangement with the several publishers interested, are now sold in the EVERY
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 bythe 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 109
XV. A Just Reward 119
XVI. A Pirate Potentate 132
XVII. How Morgan was helped by Some Religious People 145
XVIII. A Piratical Aftermath 153
XIX. A Tight Place for Morgan 159
XX. The Story of a High-Minded Pirate 171
XXI. Exit Buccaneer; Enter Pirate 192
XXII. The Great Blackbeard comes upon the Stage 200
XXIII. A True-Hearted Sailor draws his Sword 210
XXIV. A Greenhorn under the Black Flag 217XXV. Bonnet again to the Front 224
XXVI. The Battle of the Sand Bars 233
XXVII. A Six Weeks' Pirate 243
XXVIII. The Story of Two Women Pirates 253
XXIX. A Pirate from Boyhood 263
XXX. A Pirate of the Gulf 277
XXXI. The Pirate of the Buried Treasure 291
XXXII. The Real Captain Kidd 309
Haunts of The Brethren of the Coast
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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our
Coasts
Chapter I
The Bold Buccaneers
When I was a boy I strongly desired to be a pirate, and the reason for this
was the absolute independence of that sort of life. Restrictions of all sorts had
become onerous to me, and in my reading of the adventures of the bold sea-
rovers of the main, I had unconsciously selected those portions of a pirate's life
which were attractive to me, and had totally disregarded all the rest.
In fact, I had a great desire to become what might be called a marine Robin
Hood. I would take from the rich and give to the poor; I would run my long, low,
black craft by the side of the merchantman, and when I had loaded my vesselwith the rich stuffs and golden ingots which composed her cargo, I would sail
[Pg 2]away to some poor village, and make its inhabitants prosperous and happy for
the rest of their lives by a judicious distribution of my booty.
I would always be as free as a sea-bird. My men would be devoted to me,
and my word would be their law. I would decide for myself whether this or that
proceeding would be proper, generous, and worthy of my unlimited power;
when tired of sailing, I would retire to my island,—the position of which, in a
beautiful semi-tropic ocean, would be known only to myself and to my crew,—
and there I would pass happy days in the company of my books, my works of
art, and all the various treasures I had taken from the mercenary vessels which I
had overhauled.
Such was my notion of a pirate's life. I would kill nobody; the very sight of my
black flag would be sufficient to put an end to all thought of resistance on the
part of my victims, who would no more think of fighting me, than a fat bishop
would have thought of lifting his hand against Robin Hood and his merry men;
and I truly believe that I expected my conscience to have a great deal more to
do in the way of approval of my actions, than it had found necessary in the
course of my ordinary school-boy life.
I mention these early impressions because I have a notion that a great many
[Pg 3]people—and not only young people—have an idea of piracy not altogether
different from that of my boyhood. They know that pirates are wicked men, that,
in fact, they are sea-robbers or maritime murderers, but their bold and
adventurous method of life, their bravery, daring, and the exciting character of
their expeditions, give them something of the same charm and interest which
belong to the robber knights of the middle ages. The one mounts his mailed
steed and clanks his long sword against his iron stirrup, riding forth into the
world with a feeling that he can do anything that pleases him, if he finds himself
strong enough. The other springs into his rakish craft, spreads his sails to the
wind, and dashes over the sparkling main with a feeling that he can do
anything he pleases, provided he be strong enough.
The first pirates who made themselves known in American waters were the
famous buccaneers; these began their career in a very commonplace and
unobjectionable manner, and the name by which they were known had
originally no piratical significance. It was derived from the French word
boucanier, signifying "a drier of beef."
Some of the West India islands, especially San Domingo, were almost
overrun with wild cattle of various kinds, and this was owing to the fact that the
Spaniards had killed off nearly all the natives, and so had left the interior of the
[Pg 4]islands to the herds of cattle which had increased rapidly. There were a few
settlements on the seacoast, but the Spaniards did not allow the inhabitants of
these to trade with any nation but their own, and consequently the people were
badly supplied with the necessaries of life.
But the trading vessels which sailed from Europe to that part of the
Caribbean Sea were manned by bold and daring sailors, and when they knew
that San Domingo contained an abundance of beef cattle, they did not hesitate
to stop at the little seaports to replenish their stores. The natives of the island
were skilled in the art of preparing beef by smoking and drying it,—very much in
the same way in which our Indians prepare "jerked meat" for winter use.
But so many vessels came to San Domingo for beef that there were not
enough people on the island to do all the hunting and drying that was
necessary, so these trading vessels frequently anc

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