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HE MANAGED TO PULL HIM UP BEHIND Frontispiece
"MEIN VROUW! MEIN GILDREN!" THE DUTCHMAN GROANED Facing p. 16
"GOOD-BYE, TOMMY FIVE-CANOES" " 32
THE THONGS WERE CUT " 92
HE PLUNDERED AND BURNED " 108
THE HELPLESS PIRATES WERE SWEPT BACK " 122
HE WAS KNOCKED OVERBOARD BY A PIKE-THRUST " 144
SHE ROLLED AND PITCHED LIKE A MAD THING " 204
INTRODUCTION
These pictures of Colonial life and adventure make up a panorama which extends from Powhatan and John Smith, in the days of the Jamestown colony, to Pontiac's attempt upon Detroit in the period which preceded the Revolution. Here one may read stories which are strange indeed, of King Philip's War in New England, of a Dutch hero's exploit on the shores of Long Island Sound, of conflicts with the fierce Iroquois in the North, of a young New Englander's successful treasure-hunt, and of famous or infamous pirates of Colonial times. They carry the reader from a boy's defence of Fort George in Nova Scotia to battle against the Natchez at an advance post of the Louisiana colony. For the most part these thrilling tales are in the form of fiction, but it is fiction based upon historical incidents. The imaginative stories, and others which are historical narratives, will, it is believed, illustrate many unfamiliar dramas in Colonial life, and will help to give a clearer view of the men and boys who fought and endured to clear the way for us upon this continent.
STRANGE STORIES OF COLONIAL DAYS
THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN
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