LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The wreck of the Polly[Frontispiece] | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Seamanship was helpless to ward off the attack of the storm that left the brig a sodden hulk | [8] |
| Fresh water trickled from the end of the pistol-barrel, and they caught it in a tin cup | [16] |
| Volusia off Salem, built at Falmouth, Mass., in 1801, and Wrecked at Cape Cod in 1802 | [20] |
| The pirate captain boarding the captured Exertion | [29] |
| Armed with as many of the aforementioned weapons as they could well sling about their bodies | [33] |
| Boats were filled with men whose only thought was to save their skins | [56] |
| The brig, which had made a long tack and was now steering straight toward the raft | [64] |
| Governor Glass and his residence | [97] |
| Woodard raised his empty hands to ask for peace and mercy | [112] |
| Wreck of the Grosvenor on the coast of Caffraria | [144] |
| Early American ship of the 18th Century | [176] |
| Perilous situation of the ship | [224] |
| The Charlemagne, a New York packet ship | [272] |
| Brig Topaz of Newburyport, built in 1807 | [305] |
| The brig Olinda of Salem, built in 1825 | [352] |
| Taking on the pilot in the 18th Century | [384] |