Category: Adventure
History of Tortuga--Description of the island--Origin of the Buccaneers--Conquest of Tortuga by the French and English--Hunters, planters, and corsairs--Le Basque takes Maracaibo--War with the Spaniards of Hispaniola--The French West Indian Company buy Tortuga--Their various g...
Lolonnois--His stratagem--His cruelty--His partner, Michael le Basque--Takes Maracaibo--Tortures the citizens--Sacks the town--Takes Gibraltar--Attempt on Merida--Famine and pes...
9. CHAPTER II.Derivation of the words Buccaneer and Flibustier--The three classes--Dress of the hunters--West Indian scenery--Method of hunting--Wild dogs--Anecdotes--Wild oxen, wild boars, a...
13. CHAPTER VI.Bras-de-Fer compared to Alexander the Great--His adventures and stratagems--Montbars--Anecdotes of his childhood--Goes to sea--His first fight--Meets and joins the Buccaneers--D...
10. CHAPTER III.Originated in the Spanish persecution of French Hunters--Customs--Pay and Pensions--The Mosquito Indians, their Habits--Food--Lewis Scott, an Englishman, first Corsair--John Dav...
11. CHAPTER IV.The date of the first organized Buccaneer expedition is uncertain. We only know that about the year 1654, a large party of Buccaneers, French and English, joined in an expeditio...
8. CHAPTER I.The precursors of the Buccaneers--Description of Tortuga--Origin of the Buccaneers--Conquest of Tortuga by the French--The hunters, planters, and corsairs--Le Basque takes Marac...
7. CHAPTER VI.--ALEXANDRE BRAS DE FER, AND MONTBARS THE EXTERMINATOR.Bras de Fer compared by French writers to Alexander the Great--His exploits and stratagems--Montbars--Anecdote of his childhood--Goes to sea--His first naval engagement--Joins t...
1. Volume III: see https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/386333. CHAPTER II.--MANNERS OF THE HUNTERS.Indian derivation of the word Buccaneer--Flibustier--The three classes--Dress of the hunters--West Indian scenery--Method of hunting--Wild dogs--Anecdotes--Wild oxen--Wild boars...
4. CHAPTER III.--THE FLIBUSTIERS, OR SEA ROVERS.Originated in the Spanish persecution of French hunters--Customs--"No peace beyond the line"--"No prey, no pay"--Pay and pensions--Their helots the Mosquito Indians--Lewis Scott...
2. CHAPTER I.--THE PRECURSORS OF THE BUCCANEERS.History of Tortuga--Description of the island--Origin of the Buccaneers--Conquest of Tortuga by the French and English--Hunters, planters, and corsairs--Le Basque takes Maracaib...
6. CHAPTER V.--LOLONNOIS THE CRUEL.Lolonnois' stratagems--His cruelty--His partner, Michael le Basque--Takes Maracaibo--Tortures the citizens--Sacks the town--Takes Gibraltar--Attempt on Merida--Famine and pestil...
5. CHAPTER IV.--PIERRE-LE-GRAND, THE FIRST BUCCANEER.