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Contents
The Pirate Ship | 12 |
The Ancient World | 30 |
Into the Middle Ages | 44 |
Pirates of the Barbary Coast | 54 |
War on the Spanish Main | 70 |
A Piece of the Action | 92 |
The Most Notorious Pyrates | 124 |
And More Notorious Pyrates | 150 |
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Page 6 - Death was preferible to being link'd with such a vile Crew of Miscreants, to whom it was a sport to do Mischief; where prodigious Drinking, monstrous Cursing and Swearing, hideous Blasphemies, and open defiance of Heaven, and contempt of Hell it self, was the constant Employment, unless when Sleep something abated the Noise and Revellings.