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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

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