I Have In The Following Pages Endeavoured To Resist The Temptation To
Weave A Web Of Pleasant But Unreliable Fiction Round Actual
Occurrences. That Which Is Here Set Forth Has Been Derived From Facts,
And In Almost Every Case From Manuscript Records. It Aims At Telling
The Story Of An Eventful And Exciting Period According To Historical
And Not Imaginative Occurrence. There Are Extant Many Novels And Short
Stories Which Have For Their Heroes The Old-Time Smugglers. But The
Present Volume Represents An Effort To Look At These Exploits As They
Were And Not As A Novelist Likes To Think They Might Have Occurred.
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