Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 63124-h.htm or 63124-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63124/63124-h/63124-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/63124/63124-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/pirateprincesyan00hend PIRATE PRINCES AND YANKEE JACKS * * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ JUNGLE ROADS And Other Trails of Roosevelt BOONE OF THE WILDERNESS A Tale of Pioneer Adventure and Achievement in the "Dark and Bloody Ground" LIFE'S MINSTREL A Book of Verse E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY * * * * * * [Illustration: STEPHEN DECATUR. _From a painting by Rembrandt Peale._] PIRATE PRINCES AND YANKEE JACKS Setting forth David Forsyth's Adventures in America's Battles on Sea and Desert with the Buccaneer Princes of Barbary, with an Account of a Search under the Sands of the Sahara Desert for the Treasure-filled Tomb of Ancient Kings by DANIEL HENDERSON Author of "Boone of the Wilderness," "Jungle Roads and Other Trails of Roosevelt" [Illustration: Logo] New York E. P. Dutton & Company 681 Fifth Avenue Copyright, 1923, By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND BOYS WHO CREATED AND SERVED IN AMERICA'S FIRST NAVY "_The ship of war, with its acres of canvas, white in the morning sun, has sunk forever below the horizon.... No longer is the hoarse voice of the captain heard shouting to the tops or to the gun-deck in stentorian tones.... All have gone from the deck of the galley, the frigate, the line-of-battle ship, from the decks where, in the teeth of gales, they clawed off lee shores, when the mouths of their guns drank in the seas, or fought the fogs or Arctic cold; from the decks where they led the changing fortunes of the fight in the din of desperate battle; where men take life at the uttermost hazard and clasp hands with fate._" --EDWARD KIRK RAWSON. FOREWORD The road cleft by early American ships into the Mediterranean Sea has become a well-traveled one. On errands of commerce, punishment or relief, our skippers have laid an ever-broadening way into the Orient.