Leonard Lindsay Or the Story of a Buccaneer

About this eBook

Author

Reach, Angus B. (Angus Bethune), 1821-1856

Title

Leonard Lindsay ; or, the story of a buccaneer

Original Publication

United Kingdom: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.

Credits

Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Buccaneers -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69952

Release Date

February 4, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LEONARD LINDSAY OR THE STORY OF A BUCCANEER
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.CHAPTER I. OF MY BOYHOOD, AND HOW, BEING CAST AWAY AT SEA, I AM CARRIED TO THE WEST INDIES AGAINST MY WILL.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. OF MY ESCAPE FROM THE FRENCH SHIP, AND MY LANDING IN HISPANIOLA.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. I JOIN A BROTHERHOOD OF HUNTERS AND ADVENTURERS ON THE COAST.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. OF THE LIFE OF A BUCCANEER.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. HOW WE ENCOUNTER GREAT DANGERS, THE SPANIARDS ATTACKING US.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. HOW THE DEADLY FEVER OF THE COAST FASTENS ON ME.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. THE BUCCANEERS TIRE OF THE LIFE ON SHORE, AND DETERMINE TO GO AGAIN TO SEA.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. THE LEGEND OF FOUL-WEATHER DON.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. THE AUTHOR, WITH SUNDRY OF HIS COMRADES, SET OUT FOR THE CREEK WHERE HE LEFT HIS BARK, AND THERE BRAVELY CAPTURE A SPANISH SCHOONER.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. THEY RETURN WITH THE PRIZE TO THE MARMOUSETTES, AND NICKY HAMSTRING SHORTLY RELATES HIS HISTORY.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. THE BUCCANEERS PRESENTLY SET SAIL IN THE SCHOONER FOR JAMAICA, WITH A RELATION OF THE EVENTS WHICH HAPPENED THERE.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. OF THE DEATH OF AN OLD FRIEND.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. THE BUCCANEERS SAIL FOR THE SPANISH MAIN, AND ARE CHASED BY A GREAT SHIP OF WAR.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE UNKNOWN SHOALS AND THE DWARF PILOT.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. AT LENGTH THEY CATCH THE DWARF PILOT, AND HEAR STRANGE THINGS TOUCHING A TREASURE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE DWARF TURNS TRAITOR, AND OF HIS FATE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. OF THEIR UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR THE SUNKEN TREASURE—WEARYING AT LENGTH OF THE UNDERTAKING, THEY PURSUE THEIR COURSE—THE LEGEND OF ‘NELL’S BEACON,’ OR THE ‘CORPUS SANT.’
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. A KNAVE OF THE CREW PLAYING WITH COGGED DICE IS KEEL-HAULED.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. WE CRUISE OFF CARTHAGENA AWAITING THE GALLEON, AND I FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE SPANIARDS
22. 22.CHAPTER XX. I AM TRIED AND TORTURED BY THE SPANIARDS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. HOW I ESCAPE FROM THE SPANISH GUARDHOUSE—AM CHASED BY BLOOD-HOUNDS IN THE WOODS, AND HOW AT LENGTH I FIND A STRANGE ASYLUM.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. THE FAMILY OF THE SPANISH MERCHANT.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. HOW WE SAIL TO JOIN THE PEARL FLEET, AND THE NEGRO DIVER’S STORY.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. MY ADVENTURES AMONG THE PEARL FISHERS, AND MY ESCAPE FROM THE FLEET.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. THE PIRAGUA IS PICKED UP BY A GREAT PRIVATEER, AND I FIND MYSELF AMONG NEW SHIPMATES.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. THE LEGEND OF THE DEMON WHO HAUNTS POINT MORANT IN JAMAICA.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. WHAT HAPPENS ABOARD THE ‘SAUCY SUSAN’—AND THE ENDING OF HER AND HER CREW.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FOODLESS BOAT AND THE ISLAND.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD.
32. 32.CHAPTER THE LAST. I MEET OLD FRIENDS.
33. 33.Transcriber’s Notes

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