[6] Mainwaring, The Beginnings, Practices and Suppression of Pirates, ca. 1717. MS. in British Museum.
[7] To ply: to beat up against a wind.
[8] Floaty, i.e., draw little water.
[9] As early as 1613, English pirates were established at Mamora, at the mouth of the Sebu River on the Barbary Coast. That year about thirty sail were using the port.
[10] By 1618 there were one hundred and fifty Turkish vessels to only twenty English at Algiers.
[11] Doyle, English Colonies in America, Vol. I, p. 383.
[12] Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 35, folio 61.
[13] John Esquemeling, The Buccaneers of America, London, 1684.
[14] Viscount Bury, Exodus of the Western Nations, Vol. II, London, 1865.
[15] New York Colonial Documents, Vol. IV, p. 447.