The Annotated "Privateersman"

by Frederick Marryat

Notes for the entire Work

• Each chapter in this work contains the "old style" chapter headings where the chapter's "scenes" would be summarized in more or less spoiling descriptions separated by —'s. These have been retained. In this work, they also are capitalized in the older English style (All nouns, rather then just proper nouns).

• "The Privateersman" was published in 1846. If the subtitle "or One Hundred Years Ago" is to be taken literally (It is, as events in the book show), the events described are to have taken place no later then 1746.

• As with all Marryat sea stories, the dialog and narration are replete with nautical language, especially in the description of ships. You may profit from reading the Wikipedian article "Naval tactics in the Age of Sail", but this isn't required.

• All amounts of British money named are supplied with an (annotated) account of their modern purchasing power. All of these amounts are in 2006 pounds, calculated via the calculators for public use at http://www.measuringworth.com/

Contents

• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII
• Chapter XIII
• Chapter XIV
• Chapter XV
• Chapter XVI
• Chapter XVII
  • Chapter XVII-2 (Not an original division, but if Chapter 17 was kept intact, the page would cause severe problems on some people's systems and browsers. If you print this or otherwise use it yourself, you may wish to merge the two together)