li THE SEA. 



The next day after their arrival, the magistrates &f the city sent to demand certain* 

 prisoners, but fearing the Portuguese pirate might escape, kept him guarded on board,, 

 while they erected a gibbet on shore, expecting to hang him next day. Bartholomew 

 Portuguez was too much for them, and managed to escape, after stabbing his sentinel, and 

 swimming ashore with the help of two wine-jars, as he was a bad swimmer. He took to- 

 the woods, living on wild herbs, and secreted himself for days in the hollow of a tree, while 

 his enemies were searching for him. Eventually he escaped, after travelling some forty 

 leagues, a fortnight after, half starved and exhausted, to Del Golpho Triste. He had on 

 his way made a boat or raft from a plank and some osiers. But at Golpho Triste he 

 met some of his own kidney pirates of his own kind. They naturally sympathised, and 

 gave him a boat and twenty men. Eight days after he accomplished his will. He took 

 the boat to Campechy, and "with an undaunted courage, and without any noise, he 

 assaulted the said ship; those on board thought it was a boat from land that came to 

 bring contraband goods, and so were not in no posture of defence ; which opportunity 

 the pirates laying hold of, assaulted them so resolutely, that in a little time they 

 compelled the Spaniards to surrender. Being masters of the ship, they immediately weighed 

 anchor and set sail for the port, lest they should be pursued by other vessels. This 

 they did with the utmost joy, seeing themselves possessors of so brave a ship ; especially 

 Portuguez, who by a second turn of fortune was become rich and powerful again, who 

 was so lately iu that same vessel a prisoner condemned to be hanged. With this purchase 

 he designed greater things which he might have alone/ 7 and so forth. Piracy did not 

 prosper with him in the end, for his vessel was afterwards lost, and he was never fortunate 

 again. 



" Not less considerable/'' wrote Esquemeling, " are the actions of another pirate who now 

 lives at Jamaica, who on several occasions has performed very surprising things. He was 

 born at Grom'nghen, in the United Provinces. His own name not being known, his com- 

 panions gave him the name of Roche Brasiliano, by reason of his long residence in Brazil ; 

 hence he was forced to fly when the Portuguese took those countries from the Dutch, 

 several nations then inhabiting at Brazil (as English, French, Dutch, and others) being 

 constrained to seek new fortunes. 



" This person fled to Jamaica, where, being at a stand how to get his living, he entered, 

 into the society of pirates, where he served as a private mariner for some time, and behaved 

 himself so well that he was beloved and respected by all. One day some of the mariners 

 quarrelled with that degree that they left the boat. Brasiliano, following them, was chosen 

 their leader, who, having fitted out a small vessel, they made him captain." 



Within a few days after he took a rich plate ship coming from New Spain, and carried 

 it to Jamaica. This action brought him great reputation, and he was, for the time, a 

 great man ashore. He was, however, a terrible brute when drunk the average condition 

 of the pirate on land and would run wildly about the streets, insulting, beating, or wounding 

 any one he chanced to meet. Pleasant Brasiliano! 



To the Spaniards he was always barbarous and cruel, out of an inveterate hatred 

 against their nation. On several occasions he commanded men to be roasted alive on 

 wooden spits, for not showing hog-yards where he might steal swine. After committing; 



