Chapter I: Front Matter

“_Adventures are to the adventurous._”
BEACONSFIELD.

=THE ADVENTURE SERIES.=

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1.

=Adventures of a Younger Son.=
By E. J. TRELAWNY. _With
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=Robert Drury’s Journal in
Madagascar.= _Edited, with
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by Captain S. P. Oliver._

3.

=Memoirs of the Extraordinary
Military= Career of
John Shipp. _With an
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Chichester._

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=The Adventures of Thomas
Pellow,= of Penryn, Mariner.
_Written by himself, and
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Brown._

5.

=The Buccaneers and Marooners
of America.= Being an
Account of the Famous
Adventures, and Daring
Deeds of certain Notorious
Freebooters of the Spanish
Main. _Edited by Howard
Pyle._

(_OTHERS IN THE PRESS._)

THE BUCCANEERS
AND MAROONERS OF
AMERICA

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE
FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND
DARING DEEDS OF CERTAIN
NOTORIOUS FREEBOOTERS
OF THE SPANISH MAIN

A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION

EDITED BY HOWARD PYLE

LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCI.

CONTENTS.
PAGE
(1) EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION 15

(2) THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 43

=PART I.=

THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA.

CHAPTER I.

The Introduction--The Author sets forth for the
Western Islands, in the service of the West India
Company of France--They meet with an English
frigate, and arrive at the Island of Tortuga 49

CHAPTER II.

A description of Tortuga--The fruits and plants
there--How the French first settled there, at two
several times, and forced out the Spaniards--The
Author twice sold in the said island 54

CHAPTER III.

A description of Hispaniola--A relation of the French
Buccaneers 64

CHAPTER IV.

Original of the most famous pirates of the coasts of
America--Famous exploit of Pierre le Grand 76

CHAPTER V.

How the pirates arm their vessels and regulate their
voyages 80

CHAPTER VI.

Of the origin of Francis Lolonois and the beginning of
his robberies 95

CHAPTER VII.

Lolonois equips a fleet to land upon the Spanish
islands of America with intent to rob, sack, and
burn whatsoever he met with 100

CHAPTER VIII.

Lolonois makes new preparations to take the city of
St. James de Leon; as also that of Nicaragua; where
he miserably perishes 115

CHAPTER IX.

The origin and descent of Captain Henry Morgan--his
exploits, and the most remarkable actions of his
life 131

CHAPTER X.

Of the Island of Cuba--Captain Morgan attempts to
preserve the Isle of St. Catherine as a refuge to
the nest of pirates but fails of his design--He
arrives at, and takes, the village of El Puerto del
Principe 140

CHAPTER XI.

Captain Morgan resolving to attack and plunder the
City of Puerto Bello, equips a fleet, and with
little expense and small forces, takes it 149

CHAPTER XII.

Captain Morgan takes the City of Maracaibo, on the
coast of Nueva Venezuela--Piracies committed in
those seas--Ruin of three Spanish ships set forth
to hinder the robberies of the pirates 158

CHAPTER XIII.

Captain Morgan goes to Hispaniola to equip a new fleet
with intent to pillage again on the coast of the
West Indies 187

CHAPTER XIV.

What happened in the river De la Hacha 190

CHAPTER XV.

Captain Morgan leaves Hispaniola and goes to St.
Catherine’s which he takes 195

CHAPTER XVI.

Captain Morgan takes the Castle of Chagre with
four hundred men sent to this purpose from St.
Catherine’s 202

CHAPTER XVII.

Captain Morgan departs from Chagre at the head of
twelve hundred men to take the city of Panama 209

CHAPTER XVIII.

Captain Morgan sends canoes and boats to the South
Sea--He fires the city of Panama--Robberies and
cruelties committed there by the pirates, till
their return to the Castle of Chagre 223

=PART II.=

A TRUE ACCOUNT OF FOUR NOTORIOUS PIRATES.