Produced by Steven desJardins and and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Round the World with The Boy Journalists: I PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER [Illustration: "NOT THAT WAY--TWO MORE STEPS, BOY, AND YOU ARE DEAD".] By FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER Round the World with The Boy Journalists PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS HUNTING HIDDEN TREASURE IN THE ANDES Romance-History of America IN THE DAYS BEFORE COLUMBUS THE QUEST OF THE WESTERN WORLD NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER Author of "Hunting Hidden Treasure in the Andes," "In the Days Before Columbus," "The Quest of the Western World," "The Aztec-Hunters," "The Boy with the U. S. Census," etc. _Illustrated by_ C. A. FEDERER NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE AMERICAN ALL THROUGH 11 CHAPTER II WHERE BLACK MEN RULE 27 CHAPTER III THE BLOOD-STAINED CITADEL 47 CHAPTER IV THE GHOST OF CHRISTOPHE 66 CHAPTER V THE ISLE OF THE BUCCANEERS 81 CHAPTER VI A CUBAN REBEL 99 CHAPTER VII A NOSE FOR NEWS 117 CHAPTER VIII THE POISON TREES 135 CHAPTER IX THE HURRICANE 155 CHAPTER X THE LAKE OF PITCH 177 CHAPTER XI THE MORNING OF DOOM 196 CHAPTER XII A CORSAIR'S DEATH 217 CHAPTER XIII THE HUNGRY SHARK 231 CHAPTER XIV TRAPPED! 242 ILLUSTRATIONS "NOT THAT WAY--TWO MORE STEPS, BOY, AND YOU _Frontispiece_ ARE DEAD" PAGE FOR A HUNDRED FEET THEY FELL AND STUART 72 CLOSED HIS EYES IN SICKENING DIZZINESS HIS VISION DISTORTED BY THE VENOM-VAPOR OF THE 144 POISON TREES, THE LAND-CRABS SEEMED OF ENORMOUS SIZE AND THE NEGRO WHO CAME TO RESCUE HIM APPEARED AS AN OGRE ABOVE THE HOARSE SHOUTS OF RUFFIANS AND JACK-TARS, 224 ROSE TEACH'S MURDEROUS WAR CRY PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS CHAPTER I AMERICAN ALL THROUGH The tom-tom throbbed menacingly through the heavy dark of the Haitian night. Under its monotonous and maddening beat, Stuart Garfield moved restlessly. Why had his father not come back? What mystery lay behind?