The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

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Doyle Arthur Conan. The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

TALES OF PIRATES

I. CAPTAIN SHARKEY: HOW THE GOVERNOR OF SAINT KITT'S CAME HOME

II. THE DEALINGS OF CAPTAIN SHARKEY WITH STEPHEN CRADDOCK

III. THE BLIGHTING OF SHARKEY

IV. HOW COPLEY BANKS SLEW CAPTAIN SHARKEY

V. THE "SLAPPING SAL"

VI. A PIRATE OF THE LAND. ONE CROWDED HOUR

TALES OF BLUE WATER

VII. THE STRIPED CHEST

VIII. THE CAPTAIN OF THE "POLESTAR" (BEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE SINGULAR JOURNAL OF JOHN M'ALISTER RAY, STUDENT OF MEDICINE.)

IX. THE FIEND OF THE COOPERAGE

X. JELLAND'S VOYAGE

XI. J. HABAKUK JEPHSON'S STATEMENT

XII. THAT LITTLE SQUARE BOX

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When the great wars of the Spanish Succession had been brought to an end by the Treaty of Utrecht, the vast number of privateers which had been fitted out by the contending parties found their occupation gone. Some took to the more peaceful but less lucrative ways of ordinary commerce, others were absorbed into the fishing-fleets, and a few of the more reckless hoisted the Jolly Rodger at the mizzen and the bloody flag at the main, declaring a private war upon their own account against the whole human race.

With mixed crews, recruited from every nation they scoured the seas, disappearing occasionally to careen in some lonely inlet, or putting in for a debauch at some outlaying port, where they dazzled the inhabitants by their lavishness and horrified them by their brutalities.

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The Governor laughed.

"You have heard that Sharkey, the pirate, is to be hanged this morning. I ordered the batteries to salute when the rascal was kicking his last, so that I might know of it out at sea. There's an end of Sharkey!"

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