FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

"NOT THAT WAY—TWO MORE STEPS, BOY, AND YOU ARE DEAD".

By FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

Round the World with The Boy Journalists
Plotting in Pirate Seas
Hunting Hidden Treasure in the Andes

Romance-History of America
In the Days Before Columbus
The Quest of the Western World

NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS

BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

Author of "Hunting Hidden Treasure in the Andes," "In the Days Before Columbus," "The Quest of the Western World," "The Aztec-Hunters," "The Boy with the U. S. Census," etc.

Illustrated by C. A. FEDERER

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
American All ThroughPAGE
[11]
CHAPTER II
Where Black Men Rule[27]
CHAPTER III
The Blood-stained Citadel[47]
CHAPTER IV
The Ghost of Christophe[66]
CHAPTER V
The Isle of the Buccaneers[81]
CHAPTER VI
A Cuban Rebel[99]
CHAPTER VII
A Nose for News[117]
CHAPTER VIII
The Poison Trees[135]
CHAPTER IX
The Hurricane[155]
CHAPTER X
The Lake of Pitch[177]
CHAPTER XI
The Morning of Doom[196]
CHAPTER XII
A Corsair's Death[217]
CHAPTER XIII
The Hungry Shark[231]
CHAPTER XIV
Trapped![242]

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Not That Way—Two More Steps, Boy, and You Are Dead"[Frontispiece]
For a Hundred Feet They Fell and Stuart Closed His Eyes in Sickening DizzinessPAGE
[72]
His Vision Distorted by the Venom-Vapor of the Poison Trees, the Land-Crabs Seemed Of Enormous Size and the Negro Who Came To Rescue Him Appeared As an Ogre[144]
Above the Hoarse Shouts of Ruffians and Jack-Tars, Rose Teach's Murderous War Cry[224]