Chapter XIII: The End of Blackbeard 225

Lieutenant Maynard’s attempt. The attack on the pirates. Maynard
repulsed. A hand to hand battle. The fight. Maynard and Blackbeard
fight a duel. A gruesome sight. Blackbeard’s death. The end of the
pirates. The Lafitte brothers. Who the Lafittes were. The
Baratarians. Smugglers. The governor’s proclamation. Denounced as
pirates. Lafitte’s trial. The arrival of the British. Lafitte’s
patriotism. The governor’s attack. The Baratarians destroyed.
Lafitte proffers his services to General Jackson. Bravery of
Lafitte and his men. Pardons. What became of the Lafittes. The end
of piracy. What we owe the buccaneers.

ILLUSTRATIONS

At dawn the buccaneers sailed away. Frontispiece

FACING PAGE Money of the buccaneers’ times 16 Cruising about in small boats and attacking every Spanish ship they saw 17 He managed to secure two earthen wine jars and plugged their necks, with the idea of using them as floats 34 The buccaneers swarmed over the ship’s rails 35 Sir Henry Morgan, the most famous of the buccaneers, with one of his crew 76 Burning the galleon 77 The buccaneers’ fleet 116 The ruined tower of the cathedral in Old Panama 117 Near the cathedral are the walls of the ancient fort 117 Dampier wrote his journal during lulls between battles 140 Piraguas. It was in boats like these that the earlier buccaneers captured their first Spanish ships 141 Two ships were promptly fired and sunk 168 The battered, patched old galleon sailed southward around Cape Horn 169 The merchants bid for the loot brought ashore 188 All were in the best of spirits, smoking, drinking, spinning yarns of the sea 189 The last of the pirate ships, the Vigilant, as she was originally rigged. Now a packet in the West Indies 244

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