Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. Cyrus Townsend Brady

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664611062

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       BOOK I

       HOW SIR HENRY MORGAN IN HIS OLD AGE RESOLVED TO GO A-BUCCANEERING AGAIN

       Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       BOOK II

       THE CRUISE OF THE BUCCANEERS AND WHAT BEFEL THEM ON THE SEAS

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       BOOK III

       WHICH TREATS OF THE TANGLED LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE PEARL OF CARACAS

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       CHAPTER XIII

       BOOK IV

       IN WHICH IS RELATED AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF LA GUAYRA BY THE BUCCANEERS AND THE DREADFUL PERILS OF DONNA MERCEDES DE LARA AND CAPTAIN ALVARADO IN THAT CITY

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       BOOK V

       HOW THE SPANIARDS RE-TOOK LA GUAYRA AND HOW CAPTAIN ALVARADO FOUND A NAME AND SOMETHING DEARER STILL IN THE CITY

       CHAPTER XVIII

       CHAPTER XIX

       CHAPTER XX

       CHAPTER XXI

       CHAPTER XXII

       CHAPTER XXIII

       CHAPTER XXIV

       BOOK VI

       IN WHICH THE CAREER OF SIR HENRY MORGAN IS ENDED ON ISLA DE LA TORTUGA, TO THE GREAT DELECTATION OF MASTER BENJAMIN HORNIGOLD, HIS SOMETIME FRIEND

       CHAPTER XXV

PREFACE

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      In literature there have been romantic pirates, gentlemanly pirates, kind-hearted pirates, even humorous pirates—in fact, all sorts and conditions of pirates. In life there was only one kind. In this book that kind appears. Several presentations—in the guise of novels—of pirates, the like of which never existed on land or sea, have recently appeared. A perusal of these interesting romances awoke in me a desire to write a story of a real pirate, a pirate of the genuine species.

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