CHAPTER II.--THE LAST OF THE BROTHERHOOD.

Sieur de Montauban--Cruises on the coast of Guinea--Captures English man-of-war--Escape from explosion--Life with the negro king--Laurence de Graff--His victories--Enters the French service--Treachery--Buccaneers join in French expedition and take Carthagena--Buccaneer marksmen--Robbed of spoil--Return and retake the city--Capture by English and Dutch fleets, 1698--Buccaneers wrecked with D'Estrees--Grammont takes Santiago--Captures Maracaibo, Gibraltar, and Torilla--Lands at Cumana--Enters the French service--Lost in a farewell cruise 105