THEY MARCHED ... LIKE MEN WHO HAD LOST ALL INTEREST IN LIFE

PRINCE RUPERT
THE BUCCANEER

BY

C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY G. GRENVILLE MANTON

THIRD EDITION

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published . . . April 1901
Second Edition . . . June 1901
Third Edition . . . . May 1907

TO
E. C. H.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. [The Pawning of the Fleet]
II. [The Admission to the Brotherhood]
III. [The Rape of the Spanish Pearls]
IV. [The Ransoming of Caraccas]
V. [The Passage-money]
VI. [The Mermaid and the Act of Faith]
VII. [The Galley]
VIII. [The Regaining of the Fleet]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[They marched ... like men who had lost all interest in life] . . . Frontispiece

[Prince Rupert shone out like a very Paladin]

[Then one Watkin, a man of iron and a mighty shooter, took the lead]

[It would be a perpetual sunshine for me, Querida]

[Master Laughan endeavoured to outdo them all in desperation and valour]

["Oh, I say what I think," retorted Watkin with a sour look]

[The secretary was occupied in leading her own.]

[There is no mistaking the manner of buccaneers returning well-laden]