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The Book of Pirate Treasure

SKU: 1121013

By: Ralph D. Paine
434 Pages
Paperback
Indexed

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The language has no more boldly romantic words than Pirate and Galleon and the dullest imagination is apt to be kindled by any plausible dream of finding their lost treasures hidden on lonely beach or tropic key, or sunk fathoms deep in salt water. In the preface of this rare and exceedingly diverting volume, �The Pirates� Own Book,� the unnamed author sums up the matter with so much gusto and with so gorgeously appetizing a flavor that he is worth quoting to this extent: �With the name pirate is also associated ideas of rich plunder, caskets of buried jewels, chests of gold ingots, bags of outlandish coins, secreted in lonely, out of the way places, or buried about the wild shores of rivers and unexplored sea coasts, near rocks and trees bearing mysterious marks indicating where the treasure was hid. And as it is his invariable practice to secrete and bury his booty, and from the perilous life he leads, being often killed or captured, he can never revisit the spot again, therefore immense sums remain buried in those places and are irrevocably lost. Search is often made by persons who labor in anticipation of throwing up with their spade and pickaxe, gold bars, diamond crosses sparkling amongst the dirt, bags of golden doubloons and chests wedged close with moidores, ducats and pearls; But although great treasures lie hid in this way, it seldom happens that any is recovered.� IN this tamed, prosaic age of ours, treasure seeking might seem to be a peculiar province of fiction, but the fact is that expeditions are fitting out every little while, and mysterious schooners flitting from many ports, lured by grimy, tattered charts presumed to show where the hoards were hidden or steering their courses by nothing more tangible than legend and surmise. Here is a detailed collection of treasures buried by pirates of another age, waiting to be found by some intrepid and persistent seeker.

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