Category: Adventure
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
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...
2. 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...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. 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 vi...
11. CHAPTER XI.12. 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 t...
13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XV.15. CHAPTER XVI.16. CHAPTER XVII.17. 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 C...
18. CHAPTER I. OF CAPTAIN TEACH _alias_ BLACK-BEARD.His beginning--His confederacy with Hornygold--The confederacy broken--Takes a large Guinea man--Engages the _Scarborough_ man-of-war--His alliance with Major Stede Bonnet--Depo...
19. CHAPTER II. OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM KID.Commanded a privateer in the West Indies--Recommended to the Government by Lord Bellamont, &c.--Not encouraged--He is sent out in a private man-of-war with the King’s commission...
20. CHAPTER III. OF CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS ANDHis beginning--Elected captain in the room of Davis--The speech of Lord Dennis at the election--Lord Sympton objects against a papist--The death of Davis revenged--Roberts sails...
21. CHAPTER IV. OF CAPTAIN AVERY AND HIS CREW.Romantic reports of his greatness--His birth--Is mate of a Bristol man--For what voyage designed--Tampers with the seamen--Forms a plot for carrying off the ship--Executes it, a...
22. 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...
23. CHAPTER II.The island of Tortuga is situate on the north side of Hispaniola, in 20 deg. 30 min. latitude; its just extent is threescore leagues about. The Spaniards, who gave name to this...
24. CHAPTER III.The large and rich island called Hispaniola is situate from 17 degrees to 19 degrees latitude; the circumference is 300 leagues; the extent from east to west 120; its breadth al...
25. CHAPTER IV.I have told you in the preceding chapters how I was compelled to adventure my life among the pirates of America; which sort of men I name so, because they are not authorized by...
26. CHAPTER V.Before the pirates go to sea, they give notice to all concerned, of the day on which they are to embark; obliging each man to bring so many pounds of powder and ball as they thi...
27. CHAPTER VI.Francis Lolonois was a native of that territory in France which is called Les Sables d’Olone, or The Sands of Olone. In his youth he was transported to the Caribbee islands, in...
28. CHAPTER VII.Of this design Lolonois giving notice to all the pirates, whether at home or abroad, he got together, in a little while, above four hundred men; beside which, there was then in...
29. CHAPTER VIII.Lolonois had got great repute at Tortuga by this last voyage, because he brought home such considerable profit; and now he need take no great care to gather men to serve under h...
30. CHAPTER IX.Captain Henry Morgan was born in Great Britain, in the principality of Wales; his father was a rich yeoman, or farmer, of good quality, even as most who bear that name in Wales...
31. 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 vil...
32. CHAPTER XI.Some may think that the French having deserted Captain Morgan, the English alone could not have sufficient courage to attempt such great actions as before. But Captain Morgan, w...
33. CHAPTER XII.Captain Morgan takes the city of Maracaibo on the coast of Neuva Venezuela--Piracies committed in those seas--Ruin of three Spanish ships, set forth to hinder the robberies of t...
34. CHAPTER XIII.Captain Morgan perceived now that Fortune favoured him, by giving success to all his enterprises, which occasioned him, as is usual in human affairs, to aspire to greater things...
35. CHAPTER XIV.These four ships setting sail from Hispaniola, steered for the river De la Hacha, where they were suddenly overtaken with a tedious calm. Being within sight of land becalmed for...
36. CHAPTER XV.Captain Morgan and his companions weighed anchor from the Cape of Tiburon, December 16, 1670. Four days after they arrived in sight of St. Catherine’s, now in possession of the...
37. CHAPTER XVI.Captain Morgan sending this little fleet to Chagre, chose for vice-admiral thereof one Captain Brodely, who had been long in those quarters, and committed many robberies on the...
38. CHAPTER XVII.Captain Morgan set forth from the castle of Chagre, towards Panama, August 18, 1670. He had with him twelve hundred men, five boats laden with artillery, and thirty-two canoes....
39. 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 C...