CONTENTS
| [Preface] | v |
| [Table of Contents] | vii |
| [List of Illustrations] | ix |
| [Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R.N.R.] | xvii |
| I | [The beginnings of English piracy] | 1 |
| II | [Dixey Bull, the first pirate in New England waters
and some others who followed him] | 20 |
| III | [John Rhodes, pilot of the Dutch pirates on the
coast of Maine] | 44 |
| IV | [Thomas Pound, pilot of the King’s frigate, who
became a pirate and died a gentleman] | 54 |
| V | [William Kidd, privateersman and reputed pirate] | 73 |
| VI | [Thomas Tew, who retired and lived at Newport] | 84 |
| VII | [John Quelch and his crew, who were hanged at
Boston and their gold distributed] | 99 |
| VIII | [Samuel Bellamy, whose ship was wrecked at
Wellfleet and 142 drowned] | 116 |
| IX |
[George Lowther, who captured thirty-three
vessels in seventeen months] | 132 |
| X | [Ned Low of Boston and how he became a pirate
captain] | 141 |
| XI | [Captain Roberts’ curious account of what happened
on Low’s ship] | 157 |
| XII | [The brutal career and miserable end of Ned Low] | 200 |
| XIII | [The strange adventures of Philip Ashton] | 218 |
| XIV | [Nicholas Merritt’s account of his escape from
pirates] | 270 |
| XV | [Francis Farrington Spriggs, the companion of
Ned Low] | 277 |
| XVI | [Charles Harris, who was hanged at Newport with
twenty-five of his crew] | 288 |
| XVII | [John Phillips, whose head was cut off and
pickled] | 310 |
| XVIII | [William Fly, who was hanged in chains on
Nix’s Mate] | 328 |
| XIX | [Pirate haunts and cruising grounds] | 338 |
| XX | [Pirate life and death] | 353 |
| [Appendix] | |
| I [Captain Ploughman’s Commission] | 371 |
| II [Captain Ploughman’s Instructions] | 373 |
| III [Dying Speech of Captain Quelch] | 376 |
| IV [John Fillmore’s Narrative] | 379 |
| V [An “Act of Grace”] | 381 |
| [Index] | 383 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
[ Boston harbor from the survey in the “English Pilot,” Part IV. London, 1707] Front end-paper
From an original in the Harvard College Library.
[View of the harbor and town of Boston in 1723] Frontispiece
From an engraving in the British Museum after a drawing by William Burgis.
[ Fac-simile of the title-page of Capt. Charles Johnson’s “History of the Pirates,” London, 1724] 1
From an original in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[ Map of the West Indies about 1720, showing “the tracts of the Spanish Gallions”] 10