Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea

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Reading edition

Illustrated

BOSTON THE PAGE COMPANY PUBLISHERS

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CHARLES H. L. JOHNSTON

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Illustration from Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure

From “The Army and Navy of the United States.”

“AGAIN THE CANNON MADE THE SPLINTERS FLY.” (See page 273.)

Copyright, 1911, By L. C. Page & Company (INCORPORATED)

First Impression, November, 1911

Second Impression, November, 1914

THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF

THE MOST STIMULATING AUTHOR OF BOOKS FOR BOYS THAT THE PAST HALF CENTURY HAS PRODUCED, AND A WRITER WHO HAS KEPT ALIVE THE SPIRIT OF MANLY SPORT AND ADVENTURE WHICH HAS MADE THE ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLE A RACE OF WORLD CONQUERORS. MAY THEY NEVER RETROGRADE!

Thanks are due the Librarian of Congress, and particularly to Mr. Roberts of the Department of Prints, for numerous courtesies extended to the author during the compilation of this volume.