Chapter XIII [The End of Blackbeard] 225

Lieutenant Maynard’s attempt. The attack on the pirates. Maynard repulsed. A hand to hand battle. The fight. Maynard and Blackbeard fight a duel. A gruesome sight. Blackbeard’s death. The end of the pirates. The Lafitte brothers. Who the Lafittes were. The Baratarians. Smugglers. The governor’s proclamation. Denounced as pirates. Lafitte’s trial. The arrival of the British. Lafitte’s patriotism. The governor’s attack. The Baratarians destroyed. Lafitte proffers his services to General Jackson. Bravery of Lafitte and his men. Pardons. What became of the Lafittes. The end of piracy. What we owe the buccaneers. [[vii]]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

[At dawn the buccaneers sailed away.] Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
[Money of the buccaneers’ times] 16
[Cruising about in small boats and attacking every Spanish ship they saw] 17
[He managed to secure two earthen wine jars and plugged their necks, with the ideaof using them as floats] 34
[The buccaneers swarmed over the ship’s rails] 35
[Sir Henry Morgan, the most famous of the buccaneers, with one of his crew] 76
[Burning the galleon] 77
[The buccaneers’ fleet] 116
[The ruined tower of the cathedral in Old Panama] 117
[Near the cathedral are the walls of the ancient fort] 117
[Dampier wrote his journal during lulls between battles] 140
[Piraguas. It was in boats like these that the earlier buccaneers captured their firstSpanish ships] 141
[Two ships were promptly fired and sunk] 168
[The battered, patched old galleon sailed southward around Cape Horn] 169
[The merchants bid for the loot brought ashore] 188
[All were in the best of spirits, smoking, drinking, spinning yarns of the sea] 189
[The last of the pirate ships, the Vigilant, as she was originally rigged. Now a packet in the West Indies] 244

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THE BOYS’ BOOK OF BUCCANEERS

CHAPTER I

WHO AND WHAT WERE THE BUCCANEERS?