The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

by Clarence Henry Haring

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Oppenheim, ii. p. 338.

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When the Margarita patache failed to meet the galleons at Cartagena, it was given its clearance and allowed to sail alone to Havana—a tempting prey to buccaneers hovering in those seas.

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Duhalde and de Rochefort.

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Rawl. MSS., A. 175, 313 b; Oppenheim, ii. p. 338.

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Here I am following the MSS. quoted by Oppenheim (ii. pp. 335 ff.). Instead of watering in Hispaniola, the fleet sometimes stopped at Dominica, or at Aguada in Porto Rico.

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Duhalde and de Rochefort.

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Quintal=about 100 pounds.

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These "vaisseaux de registre" were supposed not to exceed 300 tons, but through fraud were often double that burden.

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Duhalde and de Rochefort; Scelle, op. cit., i. p. 54.

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Gage, ed. 1655, pp. 199-200.