Books by
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



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
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 |



An Attack on a Galleon | 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, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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