# Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

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Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main.
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
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HOWARD PYLE
HOWARD PYLE’S BOOK OF PIRATES MEN OF IRON A MODERN ALADDIN PEPPER AND SALT THE RUBY OF KISHMOOR STOLEN TREASURE THE WONDER CLOCK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Established 1817
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
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 Scarfield | 187 |
| VIII. | The Ruby of Kishmoor | 210 |
ILLUSTRATIONS :
| An Attack on a Galleon | Frontispiece | Frontispiece |
| On the Tortugas | Facing p. | 6 |
| Capture of the Galleon | Facing p.„ | 10 |
| Henry Morgan Recruiting for the Attack | Facing p.„ | 14 |
| Morgan at Porto Bello | Facing p.„ | 16 |
| The Sacking of Panama | Facing p.„ | 20 |
| Marooned | Facing p.„ | 26 |
| Blackbeard Buries His Treasure | Facing p.„ | 32 |
| Walking the Plank | Facing p.„ | 36 |
| “Captain Maltoe Shot Captain Brand Through the Head” | Facing p.„ | 40 |
| “She Would Sit Quite Still, Permitting Barnaby to Gaze” | Facing p.„ | 68 |
| Buried Treasure | Facing p.„ | 76 |
| Kidd on the Deck of the “Adventure Galley” | Facing p.„ | 84 |
| Burning the Ship | Facing p.„ | 92 |
| Who Shall Be Captain? | Facing p.„ | 104 |
| Kidd at Gardiner’s Island | Facing p.„ | 108 |
| Extorting Tribute from the Citizens | Facing p.„ | 116 |
| “Pirates Used to Do That to Their Captains Now and Then” | Facing p.„ | 124 |
| “Jack Followed the Captain and the Young Lady up the Crooked Path to the House” | Facing p.„ | 132 |
| “He Led Jack up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel” | Facing p.„ | 136 |
| “The Bullets Were Humming and Singing, Clipping Along the Top of the Water” | Facing p.„ | 142 |
| “The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury” | Facing p.„ | 146 |
| So the Treasure Was Divided | Facing p.„ | 154 ​ |
| Colonel Rhett and the Pirate | Facing p.„ | 162 |
| The Pirate's Christmas | Facing p.„ | 174 |
| “He Lay Silent and Still, with His Face Half Buried in the Sand” | Facing p.„ | 182 |
| “There Cap’n Goldsack Goes, Creeping, Creeping, Creeping, Looking for His Treasure Down Below!” | Facing p.„ | 186 |
| “He Had Found the Captain Agreeable and Companionable” | Facing p.„ | 190 |
| The Buccaneer Was a Picturesque Fellow | Facing p.„ | 196 |
| Then the Real Fight Began | Facing p.„ | 200 |
| “He Struck Once and Again at the Bald, Narrow Forehead Beneath Him” | Facing p.„ | 206 |
| Captain Keitt | Facing p.„ | 212 |
| How the Buccaneers Kept Christmas | Facing p.„ | 224 |
| The Burning Ship | Facing p.„ | 236 |
| Dead Men Tell No Tales | Facing p.„ | 240 |
| “I Am the Daughter of That Unfortunate Captain Keitt” | Facing p.„ | 244 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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