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AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS SERIES

South American Fights and Fighters

AND OTHER TALES OF ADVENTURE

BY

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL. D.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
SEYMOUR M. STONE, GEORGE GIBBS, W. J. AYLWARD
AND J. N. MARCHAND

TOGETHER WITH REPRODUCTIONS FROM
OLD PRINTS AND PORTRAITS

GARDEN CITY ———— NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
MCMXIII

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN


COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, APRIL, 1910

To
George William Beatty

Good Fellow, Good Citizen
Good Friend

PREFACE

The first part of this new volume of the AmericanFights and Fighters Series needs no specialintroduction. Partly to make this the same size as theother books, but more particularly because I especiallydesired to give a permanent place to some of themost dramatic and interesting episodes in ourhistory—especially as most of them related to the Pacific andthe Far West—the series of papers in part secondwas included.

"The Yarn of the Essex, Whaler" is abridged froma quaint account written by the Mate and publishedin an old volume which is long since out of printand very scarce. The papers on the Tonquin, JohnPaul Jones, and "The Great American Duellists"speak for themselves. The account of the battle ofthe Pitt River has never been published in book formheretofore. The last paper "On Being a Boy OutWest" I inserted because I enjoy it myself, and becauseI have found that others young and old who haveread it generally like it also.

Thanks are due and are hereby extended to thefollowing magazines for permission to republishvarious articles which originally appeared in their pages:Harper's, Munseys, The Cosmopolitan, Sunset andThe New Era.

I project another volume of the Series supplementingthe two Indian volumes immediately preceding thisone, but the information is hard to get, and the workamid many other demands upon my time, proceeds slowly.

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
ST. GEORGE'S RECTORY,
Kansas City, Mo., February, 1910.

CONTENTS

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