A Fierce Duel

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.