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Great Pirate Stories, by Various
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Title: Great Pirate Stories
Author: Various
Editor: Joseph Lewis French
Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #27090]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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GREAT PIRATE STORIES
EDITED BY
JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH Editor of "Great Sea Stories," "Masterpieces of Mystery," "Great Ghost Stories," etc.
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
TUDOR PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK
First Printing, November, 1922 Second Printing, January, 1923 Third Printing, November, 1923 Fourth Printing, November, 1929
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright, 1922, by Brentano's
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic, dialect and quoted spellings (including inconsistent proper nouns), in addition to irregular hyphenation, remain as printed. The oe ligature is shown as [oe], whilst [)a] and [)i] indicate a breve over the relevant vowel.
Go tell your King, he is King of the Land; But I am the King of the Sea!
BARBAROSSA TO CHARLES V.
FOREWORD
Piracy embodies the romance of the