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قراءة كتاب Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
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Buccaneers and Pirates
of Our Coasts
by
FRANK R. STOCKTON

Illustrated
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers
NEW YORK
by arrangement with The Macmillan Company
Copyright, 1897-1898,
By THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1898, 1926,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
All rights reserved—no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper.
Set up and electrotyped July, 1898. Reprinted November, 1898; September, 1905; May, 1906; April, October, 1908; October, 1910; March, 1913; September, 1914; January, 1915; October, 1917.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOREWORD
Tempting boys to be what they should be—giving them in wholesome form what they want—that is the purpose and power of Scouting. To help parents and leaders of youth secure books boys like best that are also best for boys, the Boy Scouts of America organized EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY. The books included, formerly sold at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2.00 but, by special arrangement with the several publishers interested, are now sold in the EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY Edition at $1.00 per volume.
The books of EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY were selected by the Library Commission of the Boy Scouts of America, consisting of George F. Bowerman, Librarian, Public Library of the District of Columbia; Harrison W. Craver, Director, Engineering Societies Library, New York City; Claude G. Leland, Superintendent, Bureau of Libraries, Board of Education, New York City; Edward F. Stevens, Librarian, Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian. Only such books were chosen by the Commission as proved to be, by a nation wide canvas, most in demand by the boys themselves. Their popularity is further attested by the fact that in the EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY Edition, more than a million and a quarter copies of these books have already been sold.
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Contents
Chapter | Page | |
I. | The Bold Buccaneers | 1 |
II. | Some Masters in Piracy | 7 |
III. | Pupils in Piracy | 16 |
IV. | Peter the Great | 23 |
V. | The Story of a Pearl Pirate | 31 |
VI. | The Surprising Adventures of Bartholemy Portuguez | 39 |
VII. | The Pirate who could not Swim | 49 |
VIII. | How Bartholemy rested Himself | 59 |
IX. | A Pirate Author | 65 |
X. | The Story of Roc, the Brazilian | 72 |
XI. | A Buccaneer Boom | 89 |
XII. | The Story of L'Olonnois the Cruel | 94 |
XIII. | A Resurrected Pirate | 100 |
XIV. | Villany on a Grand Scale | 109 |
XV. | A Just Reward | 119 |
XVI. | A Pirate Potentate | 132 |
XVII. | How Morgan was helped by Some Religious People | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17188@[email protected]#Page_145" class="pginternal" |