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BLACKBEARD;
OR, THE
PIRATE OF THE ROANOKE.
A Tale of the Atlantic.
BY B. BARKER, ESQ.
_Author of 'The Sea Serpent,' 'Dwarf of the Channel,' 'Mornilva,' &c._
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY F. GLEASON,
AT THE FLAG OF OUR UNION OFFICE,
CORNER OF COURT AND TREMONT STREETS.
1847.
_Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by F. Gleason,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts._
CHAPTER I.
_The Island of Trinidad. Landing of the Earl of Derwentwater
and his party upon the Isle--Its Enchanted Scenery. Unnatural
Sounds. Sudden appearance of the Notorious Pirate Blackbeard._
Situated upon the broad bosom of the vast Atlantic Ocean, about two
hundred leagues from the coast of Brazil, is a small but fertile island,
which has retained from the period of its first discovery, the familiar
name of Trinidad. This beautiful island, although a lovely and
sequestered spot, has been for various general reasons, but rarely
visited by the hardy mariners of the deep, and never permanently settled
or inhabited by man.
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