Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 393

This issue contains "The Battles of the Buccaneers," a serialized adventure romance by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, presented here in Chapter II. The narrative follows Convict Number Thirteen's escape from a seaside prison after five years of confinement. Using files and rope smuggled in a hollowed Bible, he cuts through cell bars, descends forty feet via linen rope, and strangles a fellow inmate who discovers him. After scaling the prison wall, he swims to an anchored pleasure yacht anchored offshore. Below deck, the escaped convict confronts the ship's six-man crew at gunpoint, revealing his background: captured aboard a pirate vessel three years prior, he learned the location of hidden treasure—a million in gold, silver, and jewels—buried on an island in the Bahamas. He proposes they steal the yacht and sail there to claim the riches, offering each crew member a hundred thousand dollars to join him in exchange for their silence.