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A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship

Gentle Hand

on Her Last African Cruise


Works of

T. JENKINS HAINS

The Windjammers$1.50
The Black Barque1.50
The Voyage of the Arrow1.50
Bahama Bill1.50

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

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BOSTON MASS.

“SPRANG WITH THE EASE OF A CAT UPON OUR POOP-RAIL.”
(See page 227)


The
Black Barque

A Tale of the Pirate Slave-Ship

Gentle Hand

on Her Last African Cruise


By

T. JENKINS HAINS

AUTHOR OF

“THE STRIFE OF THE SEA,” “THE WIND-JAMMERS,” ETC.


Illustrated by

W. HERBERT DUNTON



BOSTON

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1905

By L. C. Page & Company

(INCORPORATED)


All rights reserved

Published February, 1905

Fifth Impression, March, 1908.

COLONIAL PRESS

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.

Boston, Mass., U.S.A.


TO THE

MEMORY OF MY GRANDFATHER

Thornton Jenkins

REAR-ADMIRAL UNITED STATES NAVY

AND HIS COUSIN

Sir Robert Jenkins, K.C.B.

VICE-ADMIRAL ROYAL NAVY

WHOSE SERVICES TO THE BLACK MAN SHOULD NOT

BE FORGOTTEN

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED