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Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate

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Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #29047.

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