4 o 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER, I. 



THE PIEATES AND BUCANIEES. 



Who 

 S. 



-Esquerneling's Narrative Voya; 



'ortuga Occupied and Reoccupi 

 twice Sold as a Slave He Joins the Society 



Tortuga Occupied and Reoccupied by French and Spanish The French West India Company Esqucmeling 



" Society of Pirates Wild Boars and Savage Mastiffs How the Wild Dogs 



Surrender 



CHAPTER II. 



THE PIEATES AND BUCANIEES (continued). 



The Pirate Portuguez Another Successful Boat Attack Re-taken A Gibbet or Life -Escape Saved by Two Wine- 

 jars Helped by the Pirates Rich again And suddenly Poor A Dutch Pirate From Sailor to Captain A Grand 

 Capture And a brutal Commander No Surrender to the Spaniards Victory and Horse-flesh The Rover's 

 Prodigality A Stratagem Worse than Ever The Spaniards reduce their Commerce Lewis Scot John Davis 

 Outrages at Nicaragua Piratical Gains Lolonois the Bad and Brave His First Wounds And his Early 

 Successes Six Hundred and Sixty Pirates The Capture of Maracaibo and Gibraltar Division of the Gains 

 His Brutalities And Deserved Death 13 



CHAPTER III. 



THE PIEATES AND BUCANIEES (continued). 



The Second Lolonois Captain Henry Morgan His first Successes A Pirate Fleet of Seven Hundred Men Attack 

 on a Cuban Town Morgan's Form Not to be Beaten Puerto Bello -Morgan's Strategy The Castle taken 

 Extravagant Demands The Governor of Panama Derided Return to Jamaica Their Dissipation A Fresh 

 Start Maracaibo re-taken A Chance for Guv Fa wkes Gibraltar again Cruel Tortures inflicted on Prisoners- 

 Horrible Brutalities Arrival of a Spanish Fleet Morgan's Insolence Letter from the Spanish Admiral "To 

 the Death!" 29 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE PIEATES AND BUCANIEES (contimied). 



Stratagem St. 

 Panama A Pirate 



The First Encounter Resolute Fighting Wild'Bulls in Warfare Victory for the~ Pirates^Ruthless Destruction 

 of Property Cruelty to Prisoners Searching for Treasure Dissatisfaction at the Dividend The Last of Morgan . 40 



CHAPTER V. 



THE PIEATES AND BUCANIEES (continued). 



The Exploits of Captain Sawkins Three Ships Attacked by Canoes Valiant Peralta Explosion on Board Miserable 

 Sight on Two Ships' Decks Capture of an Empty Ship Dissatisfaction among the Pirates Desertion of Many- 

 Message from the Governor of Panama -The Pirate Captain's Bravado His Death Fear inspired on all the 

 Southern Coasts Preparations for Punishing and Hindering the Bucaniers Captain Kidd His First Commission 

 as Privateer-Turns Pirate The Mocha Fleet Almost a Mutiny on Board Kills his Gunner Capture of Rich 

 Prizes A Rich Ransom Derided Grand Dividend Kidd Deserted by some of his Men -Proclamation of Pardon 

 Kidd Excepted -Rushes on his Doom Arrested in New York-Trial at the Old Bailey Pleadings Execution 

 with Six Companions 51 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE PIEATES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUET. 



Difference between the Pirates of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Avery's brief Career A Captain all 

 ,t Sea Capture of his Ship Madagascar a Rendezvous for Pirates A Rich Prize The Great Mogul's Ship 

 Taken- Immense Spoils The Great Mogul's Rage- Avery's Treachery His Companions abandon their Evil Ways 



