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Our Pirate Hoard, by Thomas A. Janvier
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Title: Our Pirate Hoard 1891
Author: Thomas A. Janvier
Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23804]
Language: English
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OUR PIRATE HOARD.
By Thomas A. Janvier
Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers
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My great-great-great-uncle was one of the many sturdy, honest, high-spirited men to whom the early years of the last century gave birth. He was a brave man and a ready fighter, yet was he ever controlled in his actions by so nice a regard for the feelings of others, and through the strong fibre of his hardy nature ran a strain of such almost womanly gentleness and tenderness, that throughout the rather exceptionally wide circle of his acquaintance he was very generally beloved.
By profession he was a pirate, and although it is not becoming in me, perhaps, to speak boastingly of a blood-relation, I would be doing his memory injustice did I not add that he was one of the ablest and most successful pirates of his time. His usual cruising-ground was between the capes of the Chesapeake and the lower end of Long Island; yet now and then, as opportunity offered, he would take a run to the New England coast, and in winter he frequently would