Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXXVII.--Piracy--Origin of the Buccaneers--Their

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Manner of Life--Dress--Occupation-The Island of Tortuga their Head-Quarters--Their Religious Scruples--Manner of dividing Spoils--The Exterminator--The Observance of the Sabbath--Exploits of Henry Morgan--Impotence of the Spaniards--Career of William Dampier--His First Piratical Cruise--Adventures by Land and Sea--Description of the Plantain-Tree--Lingering Deaths by Poison--Reproaches of Conscience--The New-Hollanders--Dampier's Dangerous Voyage in an Open Boat--Piracy upon the American Coast--William Kidd sent against the Pirates--He turns Pirate himself--His Exploits, Detection, and Execution--His Buried Treasures--Wreck of the Whidah Pirate-Ship 351