CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
American All ThroughPAGE
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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
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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]

PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS

CHAPTER I

AMERICAN ALL THROUGH