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A39084	The history of the bucaniers being an impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other most eminent assaults committed for several years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the pirates of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English & other nations : more especially the unparallel'd atchievements of Sir H.M. / made English from the Dutch copy ; written by J. Esquemeling, one of the bucaniers ; very much corrected from the errours of the original by the relations of some English gentlemen that then resided in those parts.	Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier); Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing E3898; ESTC R37324	82,580	221

Mountains which the Inhabitants are forbidden to hunt with Dogs being reserved for cases of necessity as sudden Invasion or the like that they may serve them for food if they be put to flee to the Mountains There resorteth hither huge flocks of wild Pigeons at a certain season of the year during which season the Inhabitants feed very plentifully upon them but which is observable when this season is over they become so lean and bitter that none can taste them Upon the Sea Coasts are to be found multitudes of Sea and Land Crabs with which the Inhabitants feed their Servants and Slaves but eat not of them themselves but in cases of necessity because they are hurtful to the sight This Island being first discovered by the Spaniards and possest was afterward taken from them by the French and retaken again by the Spaniards This Contest lasted a considerable time till at length the French prevail'd and rooted out the Spaniards making themselves sole Masters of the Island which they retain to this day A Description of Hispaniola THis famous Island made known at first to the World by the means of Christopher Columbus in the year 1492. who was sent for that end by the then King of Spain is situate in the Latitude of seventeen degrees and a half its circumference is three hundred leagues its length a hundred and fifty its breadth in some places sixty in others but thirty it was called Hispaniola first by Columbus but now is frequently called St. Domingo from the chief City of it so called The City of St. Domingo being chief is as it were the Store-house of all the other Cities Towns and Villages which from hence provide themselves with all their necessaries it entertaineth no Commerce with the Merchants of any other Nation than its own the Spaniards the greatest part of its Inhabitants being also rich and substantial Merchants The next is St. Tiago an open place without either Walls or Castle most of the Inhabitants are Hunters and Planters the adjacent Fields being very proper for that use There is also another City called Nuestra Sennora de Alta Gratia where there is the best Chocolate that that Country affordeth Westward of St. Domingo is a great Village called El Pueblo de-aso the Inhabitants thereof drive a great Trade with another called San Juan de Goave which is environed with Gardens Woods and Meadows its Inhabitants are mostly Hunters and Butchers they are a Mungrel sort of people Mulatos Misticos and Alcatraces the first are such as are begotten betwixt White people and Negroes the second between Whites and Indians and the third between Negroes and Indians These are the chief places possest by the Spaniards in this Island the rest being all possest by the French There belongs to it Eighteen Ports for Shipping four of which are short of none in England the Country about the Coast is water'd with many excellent Rivers and Brooks which makes it exceeding pleasant Of the Fruits and Trees of Hispaniola AMong the varieties of Fruits that this Island yieldeth its Oranges and Lemons both sweet and sowre are most pleasant It 's true the Lemons exceeds not an Hens Egg but this is abundantly compensate by their deliciousness There are abundance of Palm Trees found here some of which are two hundred foot high having no branches but what are upon the very top every month one of these branches falleth off and at the same time another sprouteth out the leaves of this Tree are seven or eight foot in length and three or four in breadth with which they cover their houses instead of Tyles Also they make Buckets of them to carry their Water in The body of the Tree is so big that two men can scarcely grasp it in the middle yet the heart of it is so soft that if two or three Inches be pared off its outside the rest may be sliced like new Cheese The Inhabitants have a way of extracting an excellent Drink from this Tree for wounding it a little above the Root they from thence distill a sort of Liquor which in short time by fermentation becometh as strong as the richest Wine There are also in this Island beside this Palm four other sorts the Latanier Palm the Prickle Palm the Rosarick Palm and the Wine Palm the Latanier Palm is almost like the Wine Palm only it is shorter its leaves are somewhat like Womens Fans the body is full of prickles of the length of half a foot the Prickle Palm is so full of prickles from the Root to the top that there is scarce a fingers-breadth free with which some of the Indians use to torment their prisoners First tying them to a Tree and then taking these thorns they put them into little pellets of Cotton which they dip in Oil and thus stick them in the poor prisoners sides as thick as the bristles of an Hedge-Hog then they set them on fire which if he patiently endure he is accounted valiant otherwise not The Rosarick Palm has this name both from the French and Spaniards because its seed is very fit to make Rosaries or Beads to say Prayers upon I will not here ask for a Quo Warranto of this practice but I am sure if there be any vertue in these Berries the wild Boars are devouter than any of them whose constant food they are This Tree is exceeding tall and straight The Wine Palm groweth in Rocky Mountains and is of an extraordinary shape for from the Root to the half of its proportion it exceeds not three Inches about but about the two thirds of its height it 's as big as an ordinary Bucket where it is full of a Juicy Liquor which being squeezed out and fermented becomes a very good Wine they make Vessels of its leaves not only to purifie the said Liquor but also to drink it It also produceth certain Apricock Trees whose fruit resembles our Melons differing nothing in taste from our Apricocks their stones are bigger than a Hens Egg the wild Boars are exceedingly fattened with this fruit The Genips a Tree is very common here it is most like to our Cherry-tree its fruit is of the bigness of two fists of an Ash colour before it ripens it has a Juice as black as Ink and fit to be written with but disappears within nine days leaving the Paper as white as before Here also is the Tree called Caremites very like our Pear-trees whose fruits are not unlike our Damascene Plums but black on the inside its kernels are but three in number at most of the bigness of a Lupine upon this fruit also the wild Boars feed much I must not omit the prodigious number of stately Cedars that grows here which are much used in building Ships and Canows but because the Reader may not know what kind of a thing a Canow is though often spoken of in this Book I shall therefore in few words describe it A Canow is like a little Wherry-boat made of one

the loss of fourteen Men one Woman and her Daughter which it seems were sent from Jamaica to stock this new Plantation Thus far there was no great harm done the King of Spain had his Mare again and all 's well CHAP. VIII Captain Morgan attempts to preserve the Isle of St. Catherines but fails of his Design He takes Puerto del Principe CAptain Morgan finding that his Predecessor Mansfeildt was dead us'd all his Endeavours imaginable to preserve the Island of St. Catherines by reason of the conveniency of its Situation to infest the Spaniards To which purpose he wrote to several Merchants in Virginia and New-England to send provisions and other necessary things to secure and strengthen the Island against all hopes of ever being retaken together with some chast Women for procreation But all these thoughts and cares were laid aside when he heard it was surrender'd back to the Spaniards and thereupon he put himself upon other new Designs To which purpose he sail●d away to the Island of Cuba in hopes to reinforce his number as he pass'd along Cuba is a fertile and pleasant Island in length an hundred and fifty German Leagues and forty in breadth in twenty and twenty three degrees of Northern Latitude It is surrounded with a great number of small Islands by the name of Los Caos of which the Pirates make as great use as of their own proper Ports where they generally keep their Rendevouze and hold their Councils of War where with most advantage to assail the Spaniards This great Island is water'd with divers fair and large Rivers then Entrances in which form several commodious Havens Of which the most remarkable on the South side Sant Jago Bayame Santa Maria Spirito Santo Trinidad Xagua and Cabo de Corrientes To the North La Havana Puerto Mariano Santa Cruz Mata Ricos and Barracoa There are besides two Principal Cities which govern the whole Island Sant Jago to the South with a Bishop a Governour extending their Jurisdiction over the one half of the Island the chief Trade of the City being Tobacco Sugar and Hides The other is the City of Havana one of the most famous and strongest places in the West-Indies governing the other half of the Island It is defended by three Castles large and strong and contains about ten thousand Families and here the Plate-Fleet touches homeward bound for Spain to take in the rest of their Cargo as Hides Tobacco and Campeche Wood. Captain Morgan had not been above two months in the South Ports of the Island before he had got together a Fleet of twelve sail and about seven hundred Men part English part French Being thus reinforc'd they call'd a Council for 't is good to do nothing rashly what Enterprize to undertake The bolder sort were for assaulting the City of Havana it self under the shelter of the night But that proposal being rejected as an attempt of too great difficulty they concluded to pour all their Force upon Puerto del Principe whose Inhabitants were look'd upon to be very rich as driving a ready money Trade with Havana and for that the Town had never yet experienc'd the Courtesies of the Pirates being at a distance from the Sea This being therefore resolv'd upon away they steer'd to the Coasts that were nearest to it and came to an Anchor in the Bay of Puerto de Santa Maria where it fell out unluckily for their Design that a Spanish prisoner swam ashoar in the night time and gave Intelligence to the Town of their approach which caus'd the Spaniard immediately to hide their Wealth and carry away their moveable goods The Governour also arm'd all the people of the Town both Freemen and Slaves cut down the Trees and laid several Ambuscado's in their way But Captain Morgan finding the ordinary passages to the Town impassable took another way cutting his passage thorow a Wood and by that means escaping the Ambuscado's got safe to the Plain that lies before the Town call'd La Savana or the Sheet The Governour seeing his new Guests come sent a Party of Horse to welcom them into the Country thinking to over-run them immediately but the Pirates maintain'd their Order so exactly and made such a dextrous use of their Fire-Arms that the poor Spaniards dropt from their Horses like rotten Pears with their Governour for one which made the rest turn tail thinking to flie to the Woods for Refuge but ere they could reach their Sanctuaries they were most of them cut off with very little loss to their Adversaries who now enter'd the Town where the Inhabitants defended themselves like the true Race of the Goths Vandals for a time But hearing the dreadful Menaces of the Foe who threaten'd to fire the Town and chop their Wives and Children as small as Herbs to the Pot if they did not presently surrender they presently surrender'd at discretion Having thus got possession of the Town they lock'd up all the Spaniards with their Wives and Children in the several Churches and there leaving them to their Prayers and Devotions they fell to their own business of plundering and ransacking not only the Town but the Country round about from whence they brought in daily great store of goods prisoners and provision with which they made good cheer and feasted themselves but never remember'd the poor prisoners who starv'd in the Churches for hunger Nor did the Pirates think they could die in a better place besides that their Graves were at hand the Women also ran the same hard fortune From whence you may easily ghess they were none of the handsomest At length finding no more to plunder and that provisions grew scarce they thought it high time to break up house-keeping However before they went they laid two Taxes upon the people the first to redeem themselves from being transported to Jamaica and the second to preserve the Town from being reduc'd into Ashes For this the unfortunate Spaniards earnestly begg'd some time which was generously granted But the Pirates having after that intercepted a Negro with Letters from the Governor of St. Jago exhorting them not to make too much hast to pay their Ransoms in regard he was preparing to come to their relief the Captain was fain to be contented with a Present of five hundred Beeves and salt proportionable to be carried aboard by themselves since they could not pay the Porters and when they were aboard the Spaniards were made to help kill and salt the meat to boot After this they parted from Puerto del Principe and steered to a certain Island where they made a dividend of the purchase which amounted to about fifty thousand pieces of Eight in Mony and Goods But when they came to cast up their Accounts and found the smallness of the sum not enough to pay their debts the lean mischief they had done not only caus'd great sorrow and tribulation but great confusion among ' em Captain Morgan propounded to seek out for a fatter Purchase but

forced the Dutch to render though not without much blood on both sides Within the Castle were found 38 persons dead and many others wounded yet the loss of the French was far greater though they thought fit to conceal it CHAP. V. The French Fight with the Dutch at Tobago but are beaten THis Island of Tobago was first inhabited by the Prince of Curland who establish'd a Colony there who a while after for want of necessary provisions deserted it upon which it fell into the hands of some Zealanders who by the command of the States General fortified it for their use having built a stately Castle thereon for its further strength But now the French having taken Cayana ordered their business there their next project is to take Tobago whereupon De Estres setting sail from Cayana towards Cardinia he was informed that Heer Binks with his whole Fleet lay at Tobago this no ways retarded but rather hastened his motion thither where having the advantage of Wind and Weather he soon arrived Binks being inform'd of his arrival sent his Land-Forces with some of his Mariners on shoar to put all things in order for a Siege Within two days the French came to an Anchor hard by the Island where they immediately landed all their men which when Binks perceived he gave present Orders to demolish all the Houses about the Castle that the French might not take the advantage of sheltering themselves in them The next day Monsieur de Estres sent a Drum to demand the Hollanders to surrender the Fort which was scornfully denied The French seeing the Dutch so resolute and fearing that an assault would tend nothing to their honour or advantage kept close within their Trenches till the third of March This fatal day to the French being come they hoised up their Sails and with their whole Fleet engaged the Dutch in the Bay where was begun a most bloody Combate mean while the French who were on shoar advanced resolutely towards the Castle and began to storm it very briskly but the Dutch from within handled them so warmly as they were forc'd after three several Attacks to retire with the loss of 150 men and 200 wounded which with great difficulty they carried off While the French and Dutch thus entertain one another by Land the two Fleets continue their Combate most desperately sinking and killing one another Thus they continued from morning till night when Monsieur de Estres lest both the Bay and the Victory to the Hollanders in this Engagement he lost several brave Ships among the rest the Ship wherein he himself was being mounted with twenty seven Guns of a huge bigness besides several other smaller ones was unfortunately sunk CHAP. VI. The French goeth the second time to Tobago and taketh it THE shame which Monsieur de Estres conceived by this Defeat as also finding himself unable at this time to recover his reputation made him depart thence upon the 18th of March steering his course homeward where he arrived upon the 21th of June thereafter But the French King understanding this shameful foil commands the same Monsieur de Estres once more to undertake the Enterprize for repairing his own and his Countrys credit whereupon he ordered Eight great Men of War to be rigged out in all haste with Eight other smaller Ships wherewith de Estres setting Sail upon the third of October steered his course directly towards Tobago where he arrived the seventh of December following and immediately landed 1500 men with which they approach within Eight furlongs of the Castle De Estres went himself in person to view the Castle and sent a Messenger to Heer Binks demanding it to be surrendred to his Master the King of France which he gallantly refused to do upon any terms whereupon the next day the French began to advance toward the Castle the Dutch firing resolutely at them from within the French began the assault by casting of Fire-balls into the Castle one of which happened to fall in the way that led to the Magazine-house where there was a great deal of Powder scattered through the negligence of those that had the care of it which immediately took fire and ran as far as the Magazine where all blew up together by this fatal blow Binks himself and all his Officers except one Captain perished The French seeing so fair an opportunity put in their hands which otherwise they were not like to do possest themselves of the Castle where they found 300 men alive whom they afterward transported to France Thus meer chance put the Victory in their hands which if it had not so happened they had probably succeeded as badly at this time as formerly An Appendix Containing a Description of Tortuga and Hispaniola the Residence of the Pirates HAving already given you some Account of the Buccaniers I come now to say somewhat by way of description of the places of their abode for having said so much of the Birds I hope I shall be excused if I say something of the Nest also The common receptacle of these Squires being Tortuga and Hispaniola I shall briefly describe them in their order 1. Tortuga that spot of Neptune unto which these Water-padders the Buccaniers has been beholden for shelter in their extremity is situated nigh the Continent of Hispaniola upon the North side thereof in the Latitude of twenty degrees thirty nine minutes its circumference is sixty eagues called Tortuga because in shape it somewhat resembleth a Sea Tortoise This Country is full of Rocks yet abounding with lofty Trees which grow upon the hardest of these Rocks twisting their roots about them not unlike the branching of Ivy against our Walls The Northern parts are therefore totally uninhabited the South side which is inhabited hath only one Port which hath two several Entries affording passage unto Ships of seventy Guns The habitable parts of it are divided into four quarters the first called the Low Country because it is nearest the Sea its chief and only City is Cayona where the richest Planters of the Island have their abode the second is called the Middle Plantation found good only for the culture of Tobacco the third is called Ringot not so good as any of the former the fourth called the Mountain where the first Plantations were made Its Trees might be very useful being exceeding tall and straight especially the yellow Saunder which the Inhabitants call Lignum de Chandel here groweth also LignumGuaiacum to whose vertue many do owe the present use of their Noses Physicians extracting from it a Soveraign Antidote against the Pox also Gummi Elemi and China Roots it also aboundeth with Aloes with many other medicinal Herbs It s ordinary fruits are Magniot Potato's Acajow-Apples with many others which for brevity I omit Here also grow those Trees called Palmitos from which the Inhabitants draw a certain Juice which serveth them for Wine Here also is to be found a huge multitude of wild Boars inhabiting the Rocks and