Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers

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Abbott John Stevens Cabot. Captain William Kidd and Others of the Buccaneers

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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Renown of Captain Kidd. – Wild Legends. – Demands of Spain. – Opposition of the Maritime Powers. – The Rise of the Buccaneers. – The Pirates’ Code. – Remonstrance of Spain. – Reply of France and England. – Confession of a Buccaneer. – Adventures of Peter the Great.

There are but few persons, in the United States, who have not heard the name of the renowned pirate, Captain Kidd. There are also but few to be found who have any intelligent conception of his wild and guilty career. The banks of the Hudson, the islands scattered through the Sound which skirts the southern New-England coast, and the wild rivers and craggy harbors which fringe the rugged shores of Maine, are all rich with legends of the exploits and hiding-places of this notorious buccaneer.

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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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