title: Hostile Seas: A Mission in Pirate Waters
author: JL Savidge
description: <i>Hostile Seas</i> gives a human face to extraordinary events going on very far from the safe haven of a Canadian readers home. (<i>Quill &amp; Quire</i>)<br /><br />Hostile Seas is Savidges first book. We can only hope that there are more. (<i>Chronicle-Herald</i>)
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  # The Madman and the Pirate
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter One.
  
  
  Chapter Two.
  
  
  Chapter Three.
  
  
  Chapter Four.
  
  
  Chapter Five.
  
  
  Chapter Six.
  
  
  Chapter Seven.
  
  
  Chapter Eight.
  
  
  Chapter Nine.
  
  
  Chapter Ten.
  
  
  Chapter Eleven.
  
  
  Chapter Twelve.
  
  
  Chapter Thirteen.
  
  
  Chapter Fourteen.
  
  
  Chapter Fifteen.
  
  
  Chapter Sixteen.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      Etext from Athelstane.co.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter One.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  A beautiful island lying like a gem on the breast of the great
  
  
  Pacific — a coral reef surrounding, and a calm lagoon within, on the
  
  
  glass-like surface of which rests a most piratical-looking schooner.
  
  
    
  Such is the scene to which we invite our reader's attention for a
  
  
  little while.
  
  
    
  At the time of which we write it was an eminently peaceful scene. So
  
  
  still was the atmosphere, so unruffled the water, that the island and
  
  
  the piratical-looking schooner seemed to 