“Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters” by Rupert Sargent Holland. N.Y.: Garden City Pub., (1931). Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover.

            “Amos Tucker was in his element now as he leaped and wheeled and cut and lunged.”

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“The story of Yankee ship voyages in the days when the great merchants of Boston, Salem and other New England seaports were sending out their vessels westward around Cape Horn to the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands and eastward around the Cape of Good Hope to India, Sumatra, Java and China, is a chronicle filled with the most amazing adventures on sea and shore.  Pirates of yellow or brown skin infested the waters of the East Indies, the Fiji Islanders were cannibals and enjoyed making ‘Salem stew,’ China, except for the port of Canton, was forbidden to foreigners; yet Yankee captains dared all perils in their quest for markets and frequently by native shrewdness and sheer audacity won rich cargoes and brought them safely home. 

“There is a foundation of fact underlying most of the adventures related in this book; either the stories are based on actual happenings or are events that might well have taken place in those days when there were so many Salem pepper ships off the coast of Sumatra that the Malays ‘believed Salem to be a country by itself, and one of the richest and most important sections of the globe.’”

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