The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years Ago

CHAPTER I.

We cruise off Hispaniola--Capture a French Ship--Continue our Cruise--Make a Nocturnal Attack upon a Rich Planter's Dwelling--Are repulsed with Loss.

_To Mistress ----._

RESPECTED MADAM,

In compliance with your request I shall now transcribe from the journal of my younger days some portions of my adventurous life. When I wrote, I painted the feeling...