"Pirates are human beings," said Colonel Hugonin, with dignity.

The Pirate of Elswick shall not be the sport of a fussy Commission's ill-tempered Report.

On the Coromandel Coast, at Madagascar, in the African waters, and above all in the West Indian and American seas, the pirates were a constant menace.

A PIRATE, Truly defined, is a bold traitor, for he fortifies a castle against the king.

This female pirate was a native of Cork.

"'Pirate' is a harsh word, mister Robert, and should not be thrown in any gentleman's face without testimony enough to clear one in an action of defamation, should such a thing get fairly before twelve sworn and conscientious men.

I, being of the same opinion, raised myself above the high stern of our junk; and while the pirates were not more than twenty yards from us, hooting and yelling, I raked their decks, fore and aft, with shot and ball from my double-barreled gun.

Pirates are outlaws, and may be put to death by any nation capturing them.

The pirates were prime seamen, who outsailed and outfought the Company's ships; while among the Company's crews they had numerous sympathizers.

He said, that the pirate was a man maybe half as big again as the tall preacher over on the main, with hair of the colour of the sun in a fog, and eyes that no man would like to look upon a second time.

" "And I pledge you the same!" said Copley Banks, and so the two pirates became sworn comrades to each other.

"And you made up your mind the pirates were Mormons, enlisted some of your friends, armed your shipand you're back here to make us settle.

The plan which I had formed from the first, was now about to be put to proof; and, if the pirates were not the cowards which I believed them to be, nothing could save us from falling into their hands.

We've also learned that the pirates who escaped are the most dangerous of the lot.