title: Pirates of Maryland: Plunder and High Adventure in the Chesapeake Bay
author: Mark P. Donnelly
description: Mark Donnelly has collaborated with Dan Diehl on 18 books and more than 100 hours of documentary television, including programs for the Discovery, History, and Biography channels.
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  # Pieces of Eight
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Richard le Gallienne
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PROLOGUE.
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. Introduces the Secretary to the Treasury
  
  
  of His Britannic Majesty's Government at Nassau, New Providence, Bahama
  
  
  Islands.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. The Narrative of Henry P. Tobias,
  
  
  Ex-Pirate, as Dictated on His Deathbed, in the Year of Our Lord, 1859.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. In Which I Charter the “Maggie
  
  
  Darling.”
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. In Which Tom Catches an Enchanted Fish,
  
  
  and Discourses of the Dangers of Treasure Hunting.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. In Which We Begin to Understand our
  
  
  Unwelcome Passenger.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. The Incident of the Captain.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. In Which the Sucking Fish Has a Chance
  
  
  to Show Its Virtue.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. In Which I Once Again Sit Up and
  
  
  Behold the Sun.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX. In Which Tom and I Attend Several
  
  
  Funerals.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X. In Which Tom and I 