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John S. C. Abbott. Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers
Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. Origin of the Buccaneers
CHAPTER II. William Kidd becomes a Pirate
CHAPTER III. Piratic Adventures
CHAPTER IV. Arrest, Trial, and Condemnation of Kidd
CHAPTER V. Kidd, and Stede Bonnet
CHAPTER VI. The Adventures of Edward Teach, or Blackbeard
CHAPTER VII. The Close of Stede Bonnet’s Career
CHAPTER VIII. The Portuguese Barthelemy
CHAPTER IX. Francis Lolonois
CHAPTER X. The Plunder; the Carousal; and the New Enterprise
CHAPTER XI. The End of Lolonois’s Career
CHAPTER XII. The Female Pirate, Mary Read
CHAPTER XIII. Anne Bonny, the Female Pirate
CHAPTER XIV. Sir Henry Morgan
CHAPTER XV. The Capture of Puerto Velo, and its Results
CHAPTER XVI. The Expedition to Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVII. Adventures on the Shores of Lake Maracaibo
CHAPTER XVIII. A New Expedition Planned
CHAPTER XIX. Capture of St. Catherine and Chagres
CHAPTER XX. The March from Chagres to Panama
CHAPTER XXI. The Capture of Panama
CHAPTER XXII. The Return from Panama
CHAPTER XXIII. Montbar the Fanatic
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John S. C. Abbott
Published by Good Press, 2021
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We will give one incident illustrative of the mode in which these buccaneers operated.
There was at Tortuga a man born in Dieppe, Normandy. From his gigantic stature and his bold carriage he was familiarly called Peter the Great. He took a large boat, and with twenty-eight companions, desperate men, thoroughly armed, set out from the harbor in search of booty. For a long time they sailed over those tropical seas, keeping a vigilant watch from the mast-head, but no vessel appeared in sight. Their food was rapidly disappearing, and they began to be in despair.
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