pt. 1. The histories. Pirates and piracy / Oscar Hermann ; Piracy in the ancient world / Henry Ormerod ; Caesar and the pirates / Plutarch, tran. John Dryden ; The Danish and Norman pirates / Charles Ellms ; Autobiography / Edward John Trelawny ; The terrible Ladrones / Richard Glasspoole ; Authentic history of the Malay pirates of the Indian Ocean / Johh Masefield ; The female captive / Lucretia Parker ; Passing of the mogul Mackenzie: the last of the North Atlantic pirates / Arthur Hunt Chute ; The barbarous conduct and romantic death of the Joassamee chief Rahman-ben-Jabir / Charles Ellms ; Capture, sufferings, and escape of Captain Barnabas Lincoln: a narrative / John S. Sewall ; The scourge of the eastern seas / John S. Sewall ; Cruising after pirates / Captain H.C. St. John, RN ; Cruising for pirates and what we caught / John S. Sewall ; An indictment for piracy, 1812 ; The last of the sea rovers: the Riff Coast pirates / W.B. Lord ; Pirates and coast guards / Henri de Monfreid and Ida Treat -- pt. 2. The captains. The adventures and execution of Captain John Rackam / Charles Ellms ; Mutiny! Captain Howel Davis and his crew / Captain Charles Johnson.

Captain Charles Vane / Archibald Hurd ; The life of Captain Lewis / Charles Ellms ; Tom Sawyer, pirate king / Mark Twain ; Anne Bonney and Mary Read / Charles Ellms ; A true account of three notorious pirates / Howard Pyle ; Captain Gow of the Orkneys / Archibald Hurd ; A crew of the "Bloody Forties" / Captain Samuel Samuels ; King's evidence against a pirate / from state trials, 1812 -- pt. 3. Pirate song and verse. The corsair / Lord Byron ; Shakespeare on pirates ; The pirate's song / Anonymous ; The buccaneer / John Masefield ; The pirate song / Anonymous ; The rivals / E.H. Visiak ; The song of Captain Kidd / Anonymous ; The tarry buccaneer / John Masefield ; The articles of pirate law ; The pirate paraody / Captain Charles Johnson ; Last words and other pirate quotations -- pt. 4. The tales. With the buccaneers / Howard Pyle ; The daughter of the great mogul / Daniel Defoe ; The attack / Captain Marryat ; The Malay Proas / James Fenimore Cooper ; The fleet of Captain Morgan / E.H. Visiak ; The old buccaneer / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Captain Brown / Joseph Conrad ; Captain Blood / Rafael Sabatini ; The pyrates attack / George MacDonald Fraser.