THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES
OF SUNDRY
NOTORIOUS PIRATES

PIRATES

With a Foreword and sundry Decorations by

C. Lovat Fraser

NEW YORK:
ROBERT M. McBRIDE AND COMPANY
1922

First American Edition

Printed in the United States of America

Printed in Great Britain by Billing and Sons, Ltd., Guildford and Esher.

CAPTAIN AVERY

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

Time, though a good Collector, is not always a reliable Historian. That is to say, that although nothing of interest or importance is lost, yet an affair may be occasionally invested with a glamour that is not wholly its own. I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in this particular. We are apt to base our ideas of Piracy on the somewhat vague ambitions of our childhood; and I suppose, were such a thing possible, the consensus of opinion in our nurseries as to a future profession in life would place Piracy but little below the glittering heights of the police force and engine-driving. Incapable of forgetting this in more mature years, are we not inclined to deck Her (the “H” capital,