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That Little Square Box

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"All aboard?" said the captain. "All aboard, sir!" said the mate. "Then stand by to let her go." It was nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning. The good ship Spartan…

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J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement

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In the month of December in the year 1873, the British ship Dei Gratia steered into Gibraltar, having in tow the derelict brigantine Marie Celeste, which had been picked up…

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Jelland’s Voyage

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"Well," said our Anglo-Jap as we all drew up our chairs round the smoking-room fire, "it's an old tale out yonder, and may have spilt over into print for all…

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The Fiend of the Cooperage

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It was no easy matter to bring the Gamecock up to the island, for the river had swept down so much silt that the banks extended for many miles out…

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The Captain of the “Polestar”

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(BEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE SINGULAR JOURNAL OF JOHN M'ALISTER RAY, STUDENT OF MEDICINE.) September 11th.—Lat. 81° 40' N.; long. 2° E. Still lying-to amid enormous ice fields. The one…

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The Striped Chest

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"What do you make of her, Allardyce?" I asked. My second mate was standing beside me upon the poop, with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left…

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A Pirate of the Land – One Crowded Hour

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The place was the Eastbourne-Tunbridge road, not very far from the Cross in Hand—a lonely stretch, with a heath running upon either side. The time was half-past eleven upon a…

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The “Slapping Sal”

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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found…

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How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey

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The Buccaneers were something higher than a mere band of marauders. They were a floating republic, with laws, usages, and discipline of their own. In their endless and remorseless quarrel…

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The Blighting Of Sharkey

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Sharkey, the abominable Sharkey, was out again. After two years of the Coromandel coast, his black barque of death, the Happy Delivery, was prowling off the Spanish Main, while trader…

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