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A39081	Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French wherein are contained more especially the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. / written originally in Dutch by John Esquemeling ... ; and thence translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-Maison ... ; now faithfully rendred into English.; Amerikaanse zeerovers. English	Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier).; Bonne-Maison, Alonso de.	1684 (1684)	Wing E3894; ESTC R21525	201,281	412

sent out a strong company of Men to seek for the Governour of Panama of whom Intelligence was brought that he had laid several Ambuscades in the way by which he ought to ●…pass at his Return But those who were sent upon this Design returned soon after saying they had not found any Sign or Appearance of any such Ambuscades For a confirmation whereof they brought with them some Prisoners they had taken who declared how that the said Governour had had an Intention of making some Opposition by the way but that the Men whom he had designed to effect it were unwilling to undertake any such Enterprize so that for want of Means he could not put his Design in execution On the 24th of February of the year 1671. Captain Morgan departed from the City of Panama ●…ey leave Panama or rather from the place where the said City of Panama did stand Of the Spoyls whereof he carried with him 175 Beasts of Carriage laden with 175 Beasts laden with Riches Silver Gold and other precious things besides 600 prisoners more or less between Men Women Children and Slaves That day they came unto a River that passeth through a delicious Campagn Field at the distance of a League from Panama Here Captain Morgan put all his For●…es into good Order of martial Array in such manner as that the prisoners were in the middle of the Camp surrounded on all sides with Pirats At which present Conjuncture nothing else was to 〈◊〉 o●… the 〈◊〉 be heard but Lamentations Cryes Shrieks and doleful Sighs of so many Women and Children who were perswaded Captain Morgan designed to transport them all and carry them into his own Countrey for Slaves Besides that among all those miserable prisoners there was extream Hunger and Thirst endured at that time Which Hardship and Misery Captain Morgan designedly caused them to sustain with intent to excite them more earnestly to seek for Moneys wherewith to ransom themselves according to the Tax he had set upon every one Many of the Women begg'd of Captain Morgan upon their Knees with infinite Sighs and Tears he would permit them to return unto Panama there to live in company of their dear Husbands and Children in little Huts of Straw which they would erect seeing they had no Houses until the rebuilding of the City But his Answer was He came not thither to hear Lamentations and Cryes but rather to seek Moneys Therefore they ought to seek out for that in the first place where-ever it were to be had and bring They are all put to Ransom it to him otherwise he would assuredly transport them all unto such places whither they cared not to go The next day when the March began those lamentable Cryes and Shrieks were renewed in so much as it would have caused compassion in the Their Cryes renew'd hardest Heart to hear them But Captain Morgan as a Man little given to Mercy was not moved therewith in the least They marched in the same order as was said before one party of the Pirats preceding in the Van the prisoners i' th' middle and the rest of the Pirats in the Arrear-Guard by whom the miserable Spaniards were at every Step puncht and thrust in their Backs and Sides with the blunt end of their Arms to make them march the faster That beautiful and vertuous Lady of whom we made mention heretofore for her unparallel'd Constancy and Chastity was led prisoner by her self between two Pirats who guarded her Her Lamentations now did pierce the Skies seeing her self carried away into foreign Captivity often crying unto the Pirats and telling them That she had given order unto two religious persons in whom she had relyed to go unto a certain place and fetch so much Money as her Ransom did amount unto That they had promised faithfully to do it But having obtained the said Money instead of bringing it unto her they had imployed it another way to ransom some of their own and particular Friends This ill Action of theirs was discovered by a Slave who brought a Letter unto the said Lady Her Complaints and the cause thereof being brought unto the Ears of Captain Morgan he thought fit to enquire thereinto Having found the thing to be true especially hearing it confirmed by the Confession of the said religious Men though under some frivolous Excuses of having diverted the Money but for a day or two within which time they expected more Sums to repay it he gave Liberty unto the The Lady s●…t at Liberty said Lady whom otherwise he designed to transport unto Iamaica But i' th' mean while he detained the said religious Men as prisoners in her place using them according to the Deserts of their incompassionate Intrigues As soon as Captain Morgan arrived upon his March at the Town called Cruz seated on the Banks of the River Chagre as was mentioned before he commanded an Order to be published among the prisoners that within the space of three days every one of them should bring in Every one to be ransom'd or transported their Ransom under the penalty afore-mentioned of being transported unto Iamaica In the mean while he gave Orders for so much Rice and Maiz to be collected thereabouts as was necessary for the victualling all his Ships At this place some of the prisoners were ransom'd but many others could not bring in their Moneys in so short time Hereupon he continued his Voyage leaving the Village on the 5th day of March next following and carrying with him all the Spoyl that ever he could transport From this Village he likewise led away some new prisoners who were Inhabitants of the said place So that these prisoners were added unto those of Panama who had not as yet paid their Ransoms and all transported But the two religious Men who had diverted the Money belonging to the Lady were ransomed three days after their Imprisonment by other persons who had more compassion for their condition then they had shewed for hers About the middle of the way unto the Castle of Chagre Captain Morgan commanded them to be placed in due order according to their custom and caused every one to be sworn that they had reserved nor concealed nothing privately to themselves even not so much as the value of Six-pence This being done Captain Morgan having had some Experience that those lewd Fellows would not much stickle to swear falsly in points of Interest he commanded them every one to be searched very strictly both in their Cloaths and Satchels and every where it might be presumed they had reserved any thing Yea to the intent this Order might not be ill taken by his Companions he permitted himself to be A strict Search for concealed Riches searcht even to the very soals of his Shoos Unto this effect by common consent there was assigned one out of every Company to be the Searchers of all the rest The French Pirats that went on this Expedition with

of gore blood embruing therewith the ground about the Tree Afterwards to make the smart of his wounds the greater he anointed them with juyce of Lemmon mingled with salt and pepper being grounded small together In this miserable posture he left him tyed unto the tree for the space of four and twenty hours These being past he commenc'd his punishment again lashing him as before with so much cruelty that the miserable wretch under this torture gave up the ghost with these dying words in his mouth I beseech the Almighty God Creator of heaven and earth that he permit the wicked Spirit to make thee feel as many torments before thy death as thou hast caused me to feel before mine A strange thing and worthy all astonishment and admiration Scarce three or four days were past after this horrible fact when the Almighty Judge who had heard the clamours of that tormented wretch gave permission unto the author of wickedness suddainly to possess the body of that barbarous and inhumane Amirricide who tormented him unto death Insomuch that those tyrannical hands wherewith he had punished to death his innocent Servant were the tormentours of his own body For with them after a miserable manner he did beat himself and lacerate his own flesh till he lost the very shape of man which nature had given him not ceasing to howl and cry without any rest either by day or night Thus he continued to do until he died in that condition of raving madness wherein he surrendred his Ghost unto the same spirit of darkness who had tormented his body Many other examples of this kind I could rehearse but these not belonging unto our present discourse I shall therefore omit them The Planters that inhabit the Cariby Islands In the Cariby Islands they are worse are rather worser and more cruel unto their Servants then the precedent In the Isle of Saint Christopher dwelleth one whose name is Bettesa very well known among the Dutch Merchants who hath killed above an hundred of his Servants with blows and strips The English do the same with their Servants And the mildest cruelty they exercise towards them is that when they have served six years of their time the years they are bound for among the English being seven compleat they use them with such cruel hardship as forceth them to beg of their Masters to sell them unto others although it be to begin another servitude of seven years or at least three or four I have known many who after this manner served fifteen and twenty years before they could obtain their freedom Another thing The English use to sell one another for debts very rigorous among that Nation is a Law in those Islands whereby if any man oweth unto another above five and twenty shillings English mony in case he cannot pay he is liable to be sold for the space of six or eight months I shall not trouble the patience of my Reader any longer with relations of this kind as belonging unto another subject different from what I have proposed to my self in this history Whereupon I shall take my beginning from hence to describe the famous actions and exploits of the greatest Pirates of my time during my residence in those parts These I shall endeavour to relate without the least note of passion or partiality yea with that candor which is peculiar both to my mind and stile Withal certifying my Reader I shall give him no stories taken from others upon trust or hearsay but only those enterprises unto which I was my self an eye witness CHAP. VI. Of the Origen of the most famous Pirates of the coasts of America A notable exploit of Pierre le Grand I have told you in the precedent Chapters of this Book after what manner I was compell'd to adventure my life among the Pirates of America Unto which sort of men I think my self obliged to give this name for no other reason but that they are not maintained or upheld in their actions by any Soveraign Prince For this is certain that the Kings of Spain have upon several occasions The King of Spain complaineth against the Pirates sent by their Embassadours unto the Kings of France and England complaining of the molestations and troubles those Pirates did often cause upon the coasts of America even in the calm of Peace Unto whose Embassadours it hath always been answered That such men did not commit those acts of hostility and Piracy as subjects unto their Majesties and therefore his Catholick Majesty might proceed against them according as he should sind fit The King of France besides what hath been said added unto this answer That he had no fortress nor Castle upon the Isle of Hispaniola neither did he receive one farthing of tribute from thence Moreover the King of England adjoyned That he had never given any Patents or Commissions unto those of Jamaica for committing any hostility against the subjects of his Catholick Majesty Neither did he only give this bare answer but also out of his Royal desire to pleasure the Court of Spain recalled the Governour of Iamaica placing another in his room All this was not sufficient to prevent the Pirates of those parts from acting what mischief they could to the contrary But before I commence the relation of their bold and insolent actions I shall say somthing of their Origen and most common exercises as also of the chiefest among them and their manner of arming before they go out to Sea The first Pyrate that was known upon the The rise of Pierre le Grand Island of Tortuga was named Pierre le Grand or Peter the Great He was born at the Town of Diep in Normandy That action which rendred him famous was his taking of the Vice-Admiral of the Spanish Flota nigh unto the Cape of Tiburon upon the Western side of the Island of Hispaniola This bold exploit he performed alone with one only boat wherein he had eight and twenty persons no more to help him What gave occasion unto this enterprize was that until that time the Spaniards had passed and repassed with all security and without finding the least opposition through the Channel of Bahama So that Pierre le Grand set out to Sea by the Caycos where he took this great Ship with almost all facility imaginable The Spaniards they found aboard were all set on Shore and the Vessel presently sent into France The manner how this undaunted Spirit attempted and took such an huge Ship I shall give you out of the Journal of a true and faithful Author in the same words I read them The Boat saith he Bold attempt of Pierre le Grand wherein Pierre le Grand was with his companions had now been at Sea a long time without finding any thing according to his intent of Piracy sutable to make a prey And now their provisions beginning to fail they could keep themselves no longer upon the Ocean or they must of

The Town taken Town though not without great resistance of such as were within who defended themselves as long as was possible thinking by their defence to hinder the pillage Hereupon many seeing the Enemy within the Town shut themselves up in their own houses and from thence made several shot against the Pirats Who perceiving the mischief of this disadvantage presently began to threaten them saying If you surrender not voluntarily you shall soon see the Town in a Flame and your wives and children torn in pieces before your faces With these Menaces the Spaniards Entire surrendry of the Townsmen submitted entirely unto the discretion of the Pirats believing they could not continue there long and would soon be forced to dislodge As soon as the Pirats had possessed themselves of the Town they enclosed all the Spaniards both men women children and slaves in several Churches and gathered all the Goods they could find by way of pillage Afterwards they searched the whole Country round about the Town bringing in day by day many Goods and Prisoners with much Provision With this they fell to banquetting among themselves and making great Chear after their customary way without remembring the poor Prisoners whom they permitted to starve in the Churches for hunger In the mean while they ceased not to torment them dayly after an inhumane manner thereby to make them confess where they had hid their Goods Moneys and other things though little or nothing was left them Unto this effect they punished also the women and little children given them nothing to eat whereby the greatest part perished When they could find no more to rob and that Provisions began to grow scarce they thought it convenient to depart and seek new fortunes They conclude to go away The Town put to ransom in other places Hence they intimated to the Prisoners They should find moneys to ransom themselves else they should be all transported to Jamaica Which being done if they did not pay a second Ransom for the Town they would turn every house into ashes The Spaniards hearing these severe Menaces nominated among themselves four fellow-Prisoners Messengers sent to gather it to go and seek for the abovementioned Contributions But the Pirats to the intent they should return speedily with the Ransoms prescribed tormented several in their presence before they departed with all the rigour imaginable After few days the Spaniards returned from the fatigue of their unreasonable Commissions telling Captain Morgan We have ran up and down and searched all the neighbouring Woods and places we most suspected and yet have not been able to find any of our own Party nor consequently any fruit of our Embassie But if you are pleased to have a little longer patience with us we shall certainly cause all that you demand to be paid within the space of fifteen days Captain Morgan was contented as it should seem to grant them this Petition But not long after there came into the Town seven or eight Pirats who had been ranging in the Woods and Fields and got thereabouts some considerable Booty These brought among other Prisoners a certain Negro whom they had taken with Letters about him Captain Morgan having perused them found they Letters intercepted from San Tiago were from the Governour of San Tiago being written unto some of the Prisoners wherein he told them They should not make too much haste to pay any Ransom for their Town or Persons or any other Pretext But on the contrary they should put off the Pirats as well as they could with excuses and delays expecting to be relieved by him within a short while when he would certainly come to their aid This intelligence being heard by Captain Morgan he immediately gave orders that all they had robb'd should be carried on board the Ships And withal he intimated to the Spaniards that the very next day they should pay their Ransoms forasmuch as he would not wait one moment longer but reduce the whole Town to ashes in Which cause the Pirats to retreat case they failed to perform the sum he demanded With this intimation Captain Morgan made no mention unto the Spaniards of the Letters he had intercepted Whereupon they made him answer That it was totally impossible for them to give such a sum of money in so short a space of time seeing their fellow-Townsmen were not to be found in all the Country thereabouts Captain Morgan knew full well their intentions and withal thought it not convenient to remain there any longer time Hence he demanded of them onely five hundred Oxen or Cows together with sufficient Salt wherewith to salt them Hereunto he added onely this condition that they should carry them on board his Ships which they 500 Beeves granted promised to do Thus he departed with all his men taking with him onely six of the principal Prisoners as Pledges of what he intended The next day the Spaniards brought the Cattle and Salt unto the Ships and required the Prisoners But Captain Morgan refused to deliver them till such time as they had helped his men to kill and salt the Beeves This was likewise performed in great haste he not caring to stay there any longer lest he should be surprized by the Forces that were gathering against him Having received all on board his Vessels he set at liberty the Prisoners he had kept as Hostages of his demands Mean while these things were in agitation there happened to arise some dissentions between the English-men and the French The occasion of their discord was as followeth A certain French-man Discord between the French and English being employed in killing and salting one of the Beeves an English Pirat came to him and took away the Marrow-bones he had taken out of the Ox which sort of meat these people esteem very much Hereupon they challenged one another Being come unto the place of duel the English-man drew his Sword treacherously against the French-man wounding him in the back before he had put himself into a just posture of defence whereby he suddenly fell dead upon the place The other French-men desirous to revenge this base action made an Insurrection against the English But Captain Morgan soon extinguished this flame by commanding the Criminal to be bound in Chains and thus carried to Iamaica promising to them all he would see justice done upon him For although it were permitted unto him to challenge his Adversary yet was it not lawful to kill him treacherously as he did As soon as all things were in a readiness and on board the Ships and likewise the Prisoners set at liberty they sailed from thence directing They depart their course to a certain Island where Captain Morgan intended to make a Dividend of what they had purchased in that Voyage Being arrived at the place assigned they found nigh the value of fifty thousand Pieces of Eight both in 50000 Pieces of Eight robbed here money and goods The