Rights for this book: Public domain in the USA. This edition is published by Project Gutenberg. Originally issued by Project Gutenberg on 2011-02-28. To support the work of Project Gutenberg, visit their Donation Page. This free ebook has been produced by GITenberg, a program of the Free Ebook Foundation. If you have corrections or improvements to make to this ebook, or you want to use the source files for this ebook, visit the book's github repository. You can support the work of the Free Ebook Foundation at their Contributors Page. The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Modern Buccaneer, by Rolf Boldrewood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Modern Buccaneer Author: Rolf Boldrewood Release Date: February 28, 2011 [EBook #35431] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MODERN BUCCANEER *** Produced by David Edwards, Erica Pfister-Altschul and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) A MODERN BUCCANEER I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Louis Becke, author of By Reef and Palm , as to the South Sea Island portion of A Modern Buccaneer , with the exception of the chapter headed "Poisoned Arrows," which is founded upon the diary of a Whaling Cruise by my late father. Boldrewood's "Modern Buccaneer" Walker & Boutall sc. A MODERN BUCCANEER BY ROLF BOLDREWOOD AUTHOR OF 'ROBBERY UNDER ARMS' London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1894 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT 1894 BY MACMILLAN AND CO. First Edition (3 V ols.) April 1894 Second Edition (1 V ol.) October 1894 CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. M Y F IRST V OYAGE 1 CHAPTER II. W ILLIAM H ENRY H AYSTON 13 CHAPTER III. I N S AMOA 20 CHAPTER IV S AMOA TO M ILLÉ 32 CHAPTER V T HE B RIG L EONORA 41 CHAPTER VI. C APTAIN B EN P EESE 62 CHAPTER VII. C RUISING AMONG THE C AROLINES 74 CHAPTER VIII. P OISONED A RROWS 87 CHAPTER IX. H ALCYON D AYS 111 CHAPTER X. M URDER AND S HIPWRECK 121 CHAPTER XI. A K ING AND Q UEEN 159 CHAPTER XII. "M Y L ORDS OF THE A DMIRALTY " 189 CHAPTER XIII. H.M.S. R OSARIO 206 CHAPTER XIV N ORFOLK I SLAND —A RCADIA 225