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siQgle resistance, or combine for mutual defence, 

 la either case, the certainty and iiumber of the 

 prizes, which at present form the main stay of 

 piracy, would no longer hoU out the same temp- 

 tations to the crime. 



The following fable will exhibit in a conden- 

 sed form the different portions of this piratical 

 empire, and other matters of inter est connected 

 with it. 



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