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Round the World with The Boy Journalists: I
PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
By FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
Round the World with The Boy Journalists
Plotting in Pirate Seas
Hunting Hidden Treasure in the Andes
Romance-History of America
In the Days Before Columbus
The Quest of the Western World
NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS
BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER
Author of "Hunting Hidden Treasure in the Andes," "In the Days Before Columbus," "The Quest of the Western World," "The Aztec-Hunters," "The Boy with the U. S. Census," etc.
Illustrated by C. A. FEDERER
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| American All Through | PAGE 11 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Where Black Men Rule | 27 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Blood-stained Citadel | 47 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The Ghost of Christophe | 66 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| The Isle of the Buccaneers | 81 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| A Cuban Rebel | 99 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| A Nose for News | 117 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The Poison Trees | 135 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| The Hurricane | 155 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| The Lake of Pitch | 177 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Morning of Doom | 196 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| A Corsair's Death | 217 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| The Hungry Shark | 231 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Trapped! | 242 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "Not That Way—Two More Steps, Boy, and You Are Dead" | Frontispiece |
| For a Hundred Feet They Fell and Stuart Closed His Eyes in Sickening Dizziness | PAGE 72 |
| His Vision Distorted by the Venom-Vapor of the Poison Trees, the Land-Crabs Seemed Of Enormous Size and the Negro Who Came To Rescue Him Appeared As an Ogre | 144 |
| Above the Hoarse Shouts of Ruffians and Jack-Tars, Rose Teach's Murderous War Cry | 224 |
PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS
CHAPTER I
AMERICAN ALL THROUGH
The tom-tom throbbed menacingly through the heavy dark of the Haitian night.
Under its monotonous and maddening beat, Stuart Garfield moved restlessly.
Why had his father not come back? What mystery lay behind?
Often though the boy had visited the island, he had never been able to escape a sensation of fear at that summons of the devotees of Voodoo. Tonight, with the mysterious disappearance