CARRIED OFF
A STORY OF PIRATE TIMES
BY
ESMÉ STUART
AUTHOR OF 'FOR HALF-A-CROWN' 'THE LAST HOPE'
'THE WHITE CHAPEL' ETC.
WITH FOUR FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
NATIONAL SOCIETY'S DEPOSITORY
BROAD SANCTUARY, WESTMINSTER
NEW YORK: THOMAS WHITTAKER, 2 & 3 BIBLE HOUSE
1888
TO
CLARISSA AND JOHN
I dedicate this story, knowing they are already fond oftravelling. They may be glad to hear that the chiefevents in it are true, and are taken out of an old bookwritten more than two hundred years ago. Yet they maynow safely visit the West Indies without fear of beingmade prisoners by the much dreaded Buccaneers.
E.S.
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