I'll add only a brief note that the illustration of the "pirate" at page 174 
of Huck Finn (with tri-corner hat with a skull & cross-bones on the front) 
was used as the illustration on the poster advetising the first edition of 
HF. Of all the illustrations they had to choose from they selected that one.

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From: "Kent_Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Pirates in the Indian Ocean?


> Thanks to all who have responded to my original query about Indian Ocean =
> piracy.
>
> Allusions to "pirates" and "piracy" permeate Mark Twain's writings. His
> "Salutation from the 19th to the 20th Century" is an example:
>
> "I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled,=
>
> besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, Sou=
> th
> Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket f=
> ull
> of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a
> towel, but hide the looking-glass.
>
> "Mark Twain
> "New York, Dec. 31, 1900"
>
> This interesting comment appears in a notebook entry from 1888 or 1889: "=
> A
> monarch is perpetuated piracy. In its escutcheon should always be quarter=
> ed
> the skull & cross-bones" (N&J 3:401).  A similar allusion to mona=
> rchy and
> the skull and crossbones appears in chapter 10 of THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. =
> Tom
> Sawyer imagines himself a pirate flying a skull-and-crossbones flag in
> chapter 8 of TOM SAWYER, and in chapter 39 of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, he draws =
> a
> skull and crossbones on the door of a house.
>
> So, for what it's worth, Mark Twain associated the skull and crossbones w=
> ith
> piracy at least as early 1875, when he was writing TOM SAWYER, and probab=
> ly
> much earlier.
>
>
>
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