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Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime adventure-years that added to the map of the world till there was little left to discover-could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ.It was a bold hardy world--this of ours--up to the advent of our giant-servant, Steam,--every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told.The Piccaroon From Tom Cringle's Log. By MICHAEL SCOTT.The Capture of Panama, 1671 From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Malay Proas From Afloat and Ashore. By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers From Purchas, His Pilgrims. By SAMUEL PURCHAS.The Daughter of the Great Mogul From The King of the Pirates. By DANIEL DEFOE.Barbarossa--King of the Corsairs From Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean. By E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N.Morgan at Puerto Bello From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Ways of the Buccaneers From Buccaneer Customs on the Spanish Main. By JOHN MASEFIELD after JOHN ESQUEMELING.A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates From The Buccaneers of America. By HOWARD PYLE, ED.Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby, 1735 By CAPTAIN ANSELM.Francis Lolonois, the Slave Who Became a Pirate King From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49.Jaddi the Malay Pirate From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49.The Terrible Ladrones From The Ladrone Pirates. By RICHARD GLASSPOOLE.The Female Captive From an Old Pamphlet, published in 1825. By LUCRETIA PARKER.The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie, the Last of the North Atlantic Pirates From Blackwood's Magazine. By ARTHUR HUNT CHUTE.The Last of the Sea-Rovers: The Riff Coast Pirates From the Nautical Magazine. By W. B. LORD.