THE DARK FRIGATE

Wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham
who lived in the time of King Charles
and was bred a sailor
but came home to England after many hazards
by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury
and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados
in the same ship, by curious chance, in which
he had long before adventured
with the pirates.

BY CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES

Frontispiece in Color by
ANTON OTTO FISCHER

AN ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOK
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
BOSTON

Copyright, 1923,
By The Torbell Company
(Publishers of The Open Road)

Copyright, 1923,
By The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc.

Copyright, 1934,
By Little, Brown and Company

Twentieth Printing

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOKS
ARE PUBLISHED BY
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

TO
GEORGE W. CABLE
WITH WARM ADMIRATION AND FILIAL AFFECTION

From curious old books, many of them forgotten save
by students of archaic days at sea, I have taken
words and phrases and incidents. The words and phrases
I have put into the talk of the men of the Rose of Devon;
the incidents I have shaped and fitted anew to serve my purpose.

C. B. H.

With her great sails spread she thrust her nose into the heavy swell.

CONTENTS

	CHAPTER	PAGE
[I ]	Flight	3
[II ]	A Leal Man and a Fool	11
[III ]	Two Sailors on Foot	26
[IV ]	The Girl at the Inn	35
[V ]	Sir John Bristol	45
[VI ]	The Rose of Devon	57
[VII ]	The Ship's Liar	75
[VIII ]	Storm	83
[IX ]	The Master's Guest	94
[X ]	Between Midnight and Morning	101
[XI ]	Head Winds and a Rough Sea	108
[XII ]	The Porcupine Ketch	120
[XIII ]	A Bird to Be Limed	137
[XIV ]	A Wonderful Excellent Cook	144
[XV ]	A Lonesome Little Town	158
[XVI ]	The Harbour of Refuge	171
[XVII ]	Will Canty	182
[XVIII ]	Tom Jordan's Mercy	192
[XIX ]	A Man Seen Before	198
[XX ]	A Prize for the Taking	208
[XXI ]	Ill Words Come True	215
[XXII ]	Back to the Inn	231
[XXIII ]	And Old Sir John	237
[XXIV ]	And Again the Rose of Devon	242