Frontier Boys on the Coast; Or, In the Pirate's Power

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Three boys—Jim, Joe, and Tom Darlington—leave frontier life for coastal and island adventures and confront the wily Captain Bill Broom and his pirate associates. The episodic narrative alternates land and sea set-pieces—shipboard tensions aboard the Sea Eagle, wrecks and cave encounters, pursuits by bandits, daring rescues, cliff and strait passages, and an enchanted isle—showing the boys' resourcefulness, courage, and camaraderie as they face smuggling, kidnapping plots, and maritime hazards. Action-driven chapters sequence short crises and escapes, combining frontier ruggedness with nautical peril toward a climactic resolution.

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 170, text was both missing and repeated in the original. The original read:

on even terms until in the last hundred yards Cal-
iente forged ahead by half a length.

"Hold on boys," yelled Jo in warning. "Don't
on even terms until in the last hundred yards Cal-
horses up. There was Jo sitting quietly on his horse.

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