قراءة كتاب The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

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The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main

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Exquemelin A O (Alexandre Olivier)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

الصفحة رقم: 2

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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 the pirates 134
CHAPTER XIII. Captain Morgan goes to Hispaniola to equip a new fleet, with intent to pillage again on the coast of the West Indies 170
CHAPTER XIV. What happened in the river De la Hacha 173
CHAPTER XV. Captain Morgan leaves Hispaniola, and goes to St. Catherine's, which he takes 179
CHAPTER XVI. Captain Morgan takes the Castle of Chagre, with four hundred men sent to this purpose from St. Catherine's 187
CHAPTER XVII. Captain Morgan departs from Chagre, at the head of twelve hundred men, to take the city of Panama 195
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 Chagre 213

ILLUSTRATIONS

"The Man-of-War gave them chase"	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
Pierre le Grand commanding the Spanish Captain to surrender the ship	36
"Portugues made the best of his way to del Golpho Triste"	46
"They boarded the ship with great agility"	92
"Lolonois, with those that remained, had much ado to escape aboard their boats"	96
Captain Morgan recruiting his forces	114
"Being come to the place of the duel, the Englishman stabbed the Frenchman in the back"	120
"Morgan commanded the religious men and women to place the ladders against the walls"	128
"They hanged him on a tree"	146
"The fire-ship sailing before the rest fell presently upon the great ship"	158
Morgan dividing the treasure taken at Maracaibo	166
Sacking of Panama—"Morgan re-entered the city with his troops"	214

INTRODUCTION

This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon translated into the principal European languages. The first English edition was printed in 1684.

Of the author, John Esquemeling, very little is known although it is generally conceded that he was in all probability a Fleming or Hollander, a quite natural supposition as his first works were written in the Dutch language. He came to the island of Tortuga, the headquarters of the Buccaneers, in 1666 in the employ of the French West India Company. Several years later this same company, owing to unsuccessful business arrangements, recalled their representatives to France and gave their officers orders to sell the company's land and all its servants. Esquemeling then a servant of the company was sold to a stern master by whom he was treated with great cruelty. Owing to hard work, poor food and exposure he became dangerously ill, and his master seeing his weak condition and fearing to lose the money Esquemeling had cost him resold him to a surgeon. This new master treated him kindly so that Esquemeling's health was speedily restored, and after one year's service he was set at

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