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This evening we're returning to a work that more than a few of you have requested,

a general history of the pirates. From their first rise in

settlement in the island of Providence to the present time, with the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pirates, Mary Reed and Anne Bonney,

to which is added a short abstract of the statute and civil law in relation to piracy.

The second edition with considerable editions by Captain Charles Johnson, better known as Daniel Defoe,

printed for and sold by T. Warner at the Black Boy in Paternosterau, London 1724.

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