Chapter I: Front Matter

After exchanging shots, when Teach (Blackbeard) was wounded they drew their swords and fiercely attacked each other. Maynard’s sword broke in his hand and had it not been for one of his own men, who wounded Blackbeard in the throat, the duel would have ended then.]

DARING DEEDS
OF
FAMOUS PIRATES

TRUE STORIES OF THE STIRRING ADVENTURES,
BRAVERY AND RESOURCE OF PIRATES,
FILIBUSTERS & BUCCANEERS

BY
LT.-COM. E. KEBLE CHATTERTON, R.N.V.R
B.A. (OXON.),
AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANCE OF THE SHIP” “FORE AND AFT”
“SAILING SHIPS AND THEIR STORY”
_&c. &c. &c._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS

LONDON
SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED
196 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE
MDCCCCXXIX

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE EARLIEST PIRATES 17

II. THE NORTH SEA PIRATES 29

III. PIRACY IN THE EARLY TUDOR TIMES 37

IV. THE CORSAIRS OF THE SOUTH 48

V. THE WASPS AT WORK 60

VI. GALLEYS AND GALLANTRY 70

VII. PIRACY IN ELIZABETHAN TIMES 79

VIII. ELIZABETHAN SEAMEN AND TURKISH PIRATES 89

IX. THE STUART NAVY GOES FORTH AGAINST THE “PYRATS” 101

X. THE GOOD SHIP _EXCHANGE_ OF BRISTOL 114

XI. A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT 126

XII. THE GREAT SIR HENRY MORGAN 136

XIII. “BLACK BEARD” TEACH 151

XIV. THE STORY OF CAPTAIN KIDD 162

XV. THE EXPLOITS OF CAPTAIN AVERY 172

XVI. A “GENTLEMAN” OF FORTUNE 183

XVII. PAUL JONES, PIRATE AND PRIVATEER 196

XVIII. A NOTORIOUS AMERICAN PIRATE 210

XIX. THE LAST OF THE ALGERINE CORSAIRS 217

XX. PIRATES OF THE PERSIAN GULF 224

XXI. THE STORY OF AARON SMITH 235

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A FIERCE DUEL _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

A DARING ATTACK 54

GALLEY SLAVES 76

GALLANTRY AGAINST ODDS 90

BLIGHTED HOPES 104

BOMBARDMENT OF ALGIERS 220

ATTACKING A PIRATE STRONGHOLD 232

NOTE

The contents of this book have been taken from Lieutenant Keble Chatterton’s larger and more expensive volume entitled The Romance of Piracy.

THE ROMANCE OF PIRACY