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“Tn the dry and ee forests of the island a Santo Domingo, 
c n abundance; they cal! i commonly 
this. mo 
to say, one which has not yet developed a neck and has not 
x produced fruit, is selected and cut down with an axe; at 
this connection the follow ing I phs fi the Century Dictionary 
and on showing the hi d tk luti 
of the word bucane 
aneer—"' Ori re one of the French settlers in Hispaniola or Hayti 
and Tortugas, whose occupation was to hunt wild cattle and hogs, and cure 
flesh. 
“Tt is now high time to speak of the French nation who inhabit a great 
ae When the Bucaniers go into the woods to hunt for 
wild bulls and. cows, they commonly remain there for the space of a whole 
twelve-month or two ge s without returning home.'"—Bucaniers of America 
“A pirate; a oe ae Sie a one of the chiefly 
French and British, who combined to make depredations on the Spaniards 
in America in the second half of ate seventeenth century; so called because 
the first of the class were Frenchmen criven from their business of bucaning 
y the Spanish authorities of Hispaniola. 
