POSTSCRIPT. THE END OF THE PIRATES 228 BIBLIOGRAPHY 234 ILLUSTRATIONS STEPHEN DECATUR, _from a painting by Rembrandt Peale_ _Frontispiece_ PAGE "I'D BLOW EVERY ONE OF THOSE PIRATE NESTS OUT OF THE WATER BEFORE I'D PAY ONE OF THOSE BLOODY BASHAWS A SIXPENCE!" SAID THE COMMODORE 13 WRECKING AND PIRACY HAD BEEN FOLLOWED BY THE COMMUNITIES BORDERING ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS 35 IN LOOK AND IN DEED, WILLIAM EATON WAS A FIGHTER 94 "HOW DARE YOU LIFT YOUR HAND AGAINST A SUBJECT OF MINE," THE BEY OF TUNIS DEMANDED OF EATON 101 I HOPED THAT I MIGHT JOIN A CARAVAN THAT WOULD PASS BY TOKRA--THE TREASURE CITY OF MY DREAMS 105 "WE ARE BOUND ACROSS THIS GLOOMY DESERT TO LIBERATE THREE HUNDRED AMERICANS FROM THE CHAINS OF BARBARISM."--General Eaton 135 THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME AN AMERICAN FLAG HAD BEEN RAISED ON A FORT OF THE OLD WORLD 165 PIRATE PRINCES AND YANKEE JACKS CHARACTERS OF THE STORY DAVID FORSYTH, an orphan. ALEXANDER, his brother. REV. EZEKIEL ECCLESTON, D.D., Rector of Marley Chapel, Baltimore--David's guardian. COMMODORE JOSHUA BARNEY, of the United States Navy. GENERAL WILLIAM EATON, in command of the American expedition by land against Tripoli. MURAD, an Egyptian. BLUDSOE, mate of _The Rose of Egypt_. ANNE, "The Desert Girl." MUSTAPHA, An Arab boy. STEPHEN DECATUR, WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE, EDWARD PREBLE, RICHARD SOMERS, REUBEN JAMES, SAMUEL CHILDS, and other officers and men of the United States Navy. PIRATE PRINCES AND YANKEE JACKS CHAPTER I THE MAN FROM THE EAST "But, my dear Doctor," said the swarthy Egyptian, bowing with upturned palms, "you surely do not mean to keep the location of this treasure tomb hidden forever from science. I know that a man of your nature would not care for the money the jewels and trinkets would bring if sold, but I can not see how you can refuse to let scholars view these rare specimens of ancient art. Will you not----" "I beg you," said the rector in distressed tones, "to speak no more about it. The subject awakens unpleasant memories. I have never before mentioned having seen this treasure tomb. So far as I am concerned the desert sands shall not be moved from over its door. Please, my good friend, do not refer to it again!" "But," began the Egyptian. Commodore Barney jerked him to one side. "Look here, Mr. Murad," he said in gruff tones, "Dr. Eccleston lost a wife and child in that exploration. He came to this country to forget his loss. Keep off the subject of those antiques--the chances are that they're not worth the trouble it would take to dig them up!"