Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by JACOB DUNHAM, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.
D. Fanshaw, Printer and Stereotyper,
35 Ann, corner of Nassau-street.
CONTENTS.
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- [Author's Apology], [9]
- [Early Life of the Author], [11]
- [Chapter I.]—Sloop Rover
- Capture by the English—Sale and sinking of the Sloop Rover, [13]
- [Chap. II.]—Sloop New-York
- Second capture by the English—Exchange of Prisoners, [30]
- [Chap. III.]—Sloop Biddle
- Captain's Mitchell and Lafitte, the Pirates, [37]
- [Chap. IV.]
- Casting away of the Sloop Biddle near Waa-waa River—with some account of the Indians, [52]
- [Chap. V.]
- Pearl Key Lagoon, and more of the Indians, [70]
- [Chap. VI.]
- Runaway Negroes among the Indians—The Sookerman, [77]
- [Chap. VII.]—Visit to Corn Island, [89]
- [Chap. VIII.]—Visit to Bluefields
- Permit of George Frederick, King of the Musquitto Nation, [92]
- [Chap. IX.]—Mode of Taking Turtle
- Musquitto Laws—Produce—Customs, &c. [98]
- [Chap. X.]
- Some description of the country and inhabitants of the Musquitto Nation, [105]
- [Chap. XI.]—Sloop Governor Tompkins, [111]
- [Chap. XII.]—Schooner Price, First Voyage
- Leading the dance in Old Providence—A ball at St. Andreas, [115]
- [Chap. XIII.]—Schooner Price, Second Voyage
- Landing at St. Blas, [120]
- [Chap. XIV.]
- The harbor of Little Cordee—Trading with the Indians, [125]
- [Chap. XV.]—Schooner Price, Third Voyage
- A fleet of Patriots (or pirates) at Old Providence, [140]
- [Chap. XVI.]—Schooner Price, Fourth Voyage
- Our Boats fired into at Corn Island, [151]
- [Chap. XVII.]—Schooner Enterprise, [160]
- [Chap. XVIII.]—Schooner Felicity
- Republicans and Royalists of Port-au-Prince, [162]
- [Chap. XIX.]—Schooner Felicity, Second Voyage
- The smartest Padre (or priest) in the West Indies, [167]
- [Chap. XX.]—Schooner Combine
- Captured by the Pirates—Placed in the ring to be shot—Capture of the Aristides by Pirates, [170]
- [Chap. XXI.]—Schooner Combine, Second Voyage
- Our trade in Horses—The Yellow Fever at Port-au-Prince—Counterfeit Coin—Arbitrary Laws, [187]
- [Chap. XXII.]—Schooner Combine, Third Voyage, [194]
- [Chap. XXIII.]
- Capture of the Piratical Vessels by Lieutenant Commandant Allen, [199]
- [Chap. XXIV.]—Schooner Allen
- Chased by an English Schooner—Horrible attrocities committed by Pirates on the Spanish Main, [205]
- [Chap. XXV.]—Schooner Frances
- Trading Voyage to Musquitto Shore, Chagres, Porto Bello, &c.—The Author officiates at a christening, [216]
- [Chap. XXVI.]—Voyage to New Orleans
- The Hospital—Direful visitation of the Yellow Fever—Disposal of the Dead, [226]
- [Chap. XXVII.]—Schooner Horizon
- Peak of Teneriffe—Queer Carpenter, [236]
- [Chap. XXVIII.]—The Sloop First Consul
- Sinking of the Sloop—and return home penniless, [240]