Chapter I: 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

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ILLUSTRATIONS

AN ATTACK ON A GALLEON _Frontispiece_

ON THE TOTUGAS _Facing p._ 6

CAPTURE OF THE GALLEON " 10

HENRY MORGAN RECRUITING FOR THE ATTACK " 14

MORGAN AT PORTO BELLO " 16

THE SACKING OF PANAMA " 20

MAROONED " 26

BLACKBEARD BURIES HIS TREASURE " 32

WALKING THE PLANK " 36

"CAPTAIN MALYOE SHOT CAPTAIN BRAND THROUGH THE HEAD" " 40

"SHE WOULD SIT QUITE STILL, PERMITTING BARNABY TO GAZE" " 68

BURIED TREASURE " 76

KIDD ON THE DECK OF THE "ADVENTURE GALLEY" " 85

BURNING THE SHIP " 92

WHO SHALL BE CAPTAIN? " 104

KIDD AT GARDINER'S ISLAND " 108

EXTORTING TRIBUTE FROM THE CITIZENS " 116

"PIRATES USED TO DO THAT TO THEIR CAPTAINS NOW AND THEN" " 124

"JACK FOLLOWED THE CAPTAIN AND THE YOUNG LADY UP THE
CROOKED PATH TO THE HOUSE" " 132

"HE LED JACK UP TO A MAN WHO SAT UPON A BARREL" " 136

"THE BULLETS WERE HUMMING AND SINGING, CLIPPING ALONG THE
TOP OF THE WATER" " 142

"THE COMBATANTS CUT AND SLASHED WITH SAVAGE FURY" " 146

SO THE TREASURE WAS DIVIDED " 154

COLONEL RHETT AND THE PIRATE " 162

THE PIRATE'S CHRISTMAS " 174

"HE LAY SILENT AND STILL, WITH HIS FACE HALF BURIED IN
THE SAND" " 182

"THERE CAP'N GOLDSACK GOES, CREEPING, CREEPING, CREEPING,
LOOKING FOR HIS TREASURE DOWN BELOW!" " 186

"HE HAD FOUND THE CAPTAIN AGREEABLE AND COMPANIONABLE" " 190

THE BUCCANEER WAS A PICTURESQUE FELLOW " 196

THEN THE REAL FIGHT BEGAN " 200

"HE STRUCK ONCE AND AGAIN AT THE BALD, NARROW FOREHEAD
BENEATH HIM" " 206

CAPTAIN KEITT " 212

HOW THE BUCCANEERS KEPT CHRISTMAS " 224

THE BURNING SHIP " 236

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES " 240

"I AM THE DAUGHTER OF THAT UNFORTUNATE CAPTAIN KEITT" " 244

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