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Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main

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Brady Cyrus Townsend

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and disregard the artistic canons. So I have tried to show him as he was; great and brave, small and mean, skilful and able, greedy and cruel; and lastly, in his crimes and punishment, a coward.

And if a mere romance may have a lesson, here in this tale is one of a just retribution, exhibited in the awful, if adequate, vengeance finally wreaked upon Morgan by those whom he had so fearfully and dreadfully wronged.

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.

Brooklyn, N.Y., December, 1902.

Note.—The date of the sack of Panama has been advanced to comply with the demands of this romance.

BOOK I.
How Sir Henry Morgan in his Old Age Resolved to go a-Buccaneering Again.
CHAPTER	PAGE
I.—Wherein Sir Henry Morgan made good use of the ten minutes allowed him	25
II.—How Master Benjamin Hornigold, the One-Eyed, agreed to go with his old Captain	45
III.—In which Sir Henry Morgan finds himself at the head of a crew once more	65
IV.—Which tells how the Mary Rose, frigate, changed masters and flags	81
BOOK II.
The Cruise of the Buccaneers and what Befel them on the Seas.
V.—How the Mary Rose overhauled three Spanish treasure ships	97
VI.—In which is related the strange expedient of the Captain and how they took the great galleon	115
VII.—Wherein Bartholomew Sawkins mutinied against his Captain and what befel him on that account	128
VIII.—How they strove to club-haul the galleon and failed to save her on the coast of Caracas	145
BOOK III.
Which Treats of the Tangled Love Affairs of the Pearl of Caracas.
IX.—Discloses the hopeless passion between Donna Mercedes de Lara and Captain Dominique Alvarado, the Commandante of La Guayra	161
X.—How Donna Mercedes tempted her lover and how he strove valiantly to resist her appeals	174
XI.—Wherein Captain Alvarado pledges his word to the Viceroy of Venezuela, the Count Alvaro de Lara, and to Don Felipe de Tobar, his friend	190
XII.—Shows how Donna Mercedes chose death rather than give up Captain Alvarado, and what befel them on the road over the mountains	200
XIII.—In which Captain Alvarado is forsworn and with Donna Mercedes in his arms breaks his plighted word	218
BOOK IV.
In which is Related an Account of the Taking of La Guayra by the Buccaneers and the Dreadful Perils of Donna Mercedes de Lara and Captain Alvarado in that City.
XIV.—Wherein the crew of the galleon intercepts the two lovers by the way	231
XV.—Tells how Mercedes de Lara returned the unsought caress of Sir Henry Morgan and the means by which the buccaneers surmounted the walls	248
XVI.—In which Benjamin Hornigold recognizes a cross and Captain Alvarado finds and loses a mother on the strand	265
XVII.—Which describes an audience with Sir Henry Morgan and the treachery by which Captain Alvarado benefited	283
BOOK V.
How the Spaniards Re-took La Guayra and how Captain Alvarado Found a Name and Something Dearer Still in the City.
XVIII.—Discloses the way in which Mercedes de Lara fought with woman's cunning against Captain Henry Morgan	301
XIX.—How Captain Alvarado crossed the mountains, found the Viceroy, and placed his life in his master's hands	326
XX.—Wherein Master Teach, the pirate, dies better than he lived

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