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Daniel Henderson. Pirate Princes and Yankee Jacks
Pirate Princes and Yankee Jacks
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHARACTERS OF THE STORY
CHAPTER I THE MAN FROM THE EAST
SEA LONGINGS
CHAPTER II CAPTURED BY CORSAIRS
CHAPTER III BARBARY AND THE BUCCANEERS
"RED-BEARD"
GALLANT DON JOHN
CERVANTES—WARRIOR AND AUTHOR
DAUNTLESS MASTER NICHOLS
CHAPTER IV THE ROSE OF EGYPT
CHAPTER V MY FIRST VOYAGE
CHAPTER VI MUTINY
CHAPTER VII BETRAYED
CHAPTER VIII AN AMERICAN FRIGATE BECOMES A CORSAIR'S CATTLESHIP
ALEXANDER FREE
THE VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER IX LIFE ABOARD OLD IRONSIDES
EVERY-DAY HAZARDS
CHAPTER X A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN THE COURT OF TUNIS
A DARTMOUTH LAD
THE HORSE-WHIPPING
WAR BREAKS OUT WITH TRIPOLI
CHAPTER XI THE LOSS OF THE PHILADELPHIA
A BRAVE OFFICER'S BAD LUCK
CHAPTER XII WE BLOW UP THE PHILADELPHIA
A DUEL
DECATUR'S BRILLIANT EXPLOIT
CHAPTER XIII THE AMERICAN EAGLE ENTERS THE AFRICAN DESERT
THE SHEIKS REBEL
CHAPTER XIV THE DESERT GIRL
HAMET BASHAW LOSES HIS TEMPER
THE ALLIES QUARREL
CHAPTER XV REUBEN JAMES SAVES DECATUR'S LIFE
THE DEATH OF SOMERS
CHAPTER XVI WE CAPTURE THE DESERT CITY OF DERNE
THE GOVERNOR FLEES
THE CAMPAIGN BLOCKED
CHAPTER XVII THE TREASURE TOMB
CHAPTER XVIII SOLD INTO SLAVERY
THE SLAVE MARKET
CHAPTER XIX THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XX HOME SURPRISES
POSTSCRIPT
BRITAIN FOLLOWS DECATUR'S LEAD
SOURCES OF INFORMATION DRAWN UPON BY THE AUTHOR
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Daniel Henderson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The commodore was a burly, pink-cheeked, big-hearted man. What a dandy he was! When on shore he wore a cocked hat, a coat with large lace cuffs, and a cape cut low to show his neck-stock of fine linen cambric. His breeches were closely fitted with large buckles. He wore silk stockings and large buckled shoes. No one who saw him sauntering along Market Street would take him to be a sailor, although his tongue betrayed his calling. Nautical terms, strange oaths, shipping topics were forever on his lips. His clothes spoke of the ballroom, but his language had the tang of the ship's deck and the salt wind.
He was fond of the ladies. It often amused us to see him dancing attendance on a maid who minced along in brocade or taffeta, with her skirts ballooning from the hoops underneath, with bright-colored shoes peeping out from beneath her skirts, and with an enormous plume in her big bonnet that waved towards the commodore's cocked hat. The hooped skirts seemed to be trying to keep her escort at a distance, while he struggled manfully to pour his words into her ear.
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