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In the days of sailing ships and pirates and convict settlements, strange adventures were the order of the day. Few adventures were any stranger, though, than that of Captain Brown, of Boston, in command of the Florida.
Mr. Brown sailed out of Valparaiso, Chile, with a crew of eight, a single passenger and a cargo of some eighty convicts and straight into a most curious adventure with a pirate who would be king.
But there was not only the swashbuckling pirate, Cambiaso, who set himself up as king of Patagonia; there was also the convict band that had taken over the settlement; the vessel Eliza Cornish captured by the pirates; and a storm that almost got the better even of Mr. Brown.
Young readers will find this true tale of a Yankee captain's bravery an exciting experience.
—from the dust jacket
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