Front matter
Reading edition
The Merchantman and the Pirate
Young Folks’ Library in Twenty Volumes Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Editor-in-Chief
SEA STORIES
EDITED BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
BOSTON HALL AND LOCKE COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1902, By HALL & LOCKE COMPANY. Boston, U.S.A.
Stanhope Press P. H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON, U.S.A.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Colored Illustrations
Yarns of the Forecastle, By the Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady.
The Mutiny of the Bounty, From Chambers's Miscellany.
Our First Whale, By F. T. Bullen.
Going to Sea a Hundred Years Ago, By R. J. Cleveland.
The Escape of the American Frigate Alliance, By J. Fenimore Cooper.
Among the Ice Floes, By J. Fenimore Cooper.
A Tornado at Sea, By George Cupples.
My First Voyage, By R. H. Dana, Jr.
Running Away to Sea, By Daniel Defoe.
The Tempest, By Charles Dickens.
A Struggle with a Devil Fish, By Victor Hugo.
The Man and the Cannon, By Victor Hugo.
A Ship on Fire at Sea, By Jean Ingelow.
In the Gulf Stream, By Charles Kingsley.
The Loss of the Royal George, By W. H. G. Kingston.
Sailors' Yarns, By Pierre Loti.
Equality at Sea, By Captain F. Marryat.
The Club-Hauling of the Diomede, By Captain F. Marryat.
The Chase, By Herman Melville.
Rounding Cape Horn, By Herman Melville.
The Merchantman and the Pirate, By Charles Reade.
A Gale of Wind, By W. Clark Russell.
Saved, By W. Clark Russell.
The Capture of the Cotton Ship, By Michael Scott.
The Cruise of the Coracle, By R. L. Stevenson.
Landing on the Island, By Jean Rudolf Wyss.
Biographical Notes
Suggestions for Supplementary Reading
LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS
The Fight Between the Merchantman and the Pirate
“He Lifted His Lance and Hurled It at the Visitor”
“The Two Frigates Grappled”
“The Vessel Continued in Pursuit, Changing Her Course as We Changed Ours”
The Contest between Gun and Gunner
“The Ship ... Went Completely Over”
“By this Time all Eyes were Turned upon Her”
And Eighty-six Black and White Illustrations in the Text.