The startling, thrilling & interesting narrative of the life, sufferings, singular and surprising adventures of Fanny Templeton Danforth : who, disguised in the uniform of a midshipman, went in search of her lover, an officer in the United States Navy, and was taken prisoner by the pirate ship "Demon-of-the-Seas," May 17th, 1848, and was rescued by the crew of the U.S. man-of-war Macedonian, led on by her lover, just as she was to have been burned alive by her captors "the pirates of the Isle of Pines".