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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

so hunted bite them off which the Hunters finding desist their further pursuit For they finding their Bodies but missing that they came for enjoyn'd them a severe Penance making them keep Fast till the Pride of their flesh was much abated But not content with this they put them to as severe an Inquisition as ever his Unholiness or any of his Cabinet-Council invented to extort from them a confession of the unrighteous Mammon Yet further knowing it was hard to trust them who were so well instructed in the Art of Equivocating with Hereticks when they had got all they could this way they threatned to burn their Houses and sell them for Slaves unless they would ransom both When they had got all they expected and now made themselves men they thought it best to be gone in time and to return to their Ports whence they set forth that they might again a little indulge their former pleasures never resolving to make an Idol of what they had thus Purchased Where in a little time partly the Taverns and partly their Female Friends like Spunges quickly sucked up their superfluous Monies and then turned them out to seek their new adventures But that I may not detain you longer in the Entry I shall proceed to give you an account of those Cannibals adventures ROCK BRASILIANO FRANCIS LOLONOIS PETER FRANCIS BARTOLOMEW PORTUGUES E. H. Van Houe Sculp CHAP. II. The Original of the American Pirates THE American Pirates or Bucaneers are the Subject of this History a sort of People who cannot be said to deserve any other Title as not being maintain'd or upheld in their Actions by any Soveraign Prince For certain it is that when the Kings of Spain have complain'd by their Embassadors to the Kings of England and France of the Molestations and Robberies done upon the Spaniards both at Land and at Sea by those Pirates upon the Coasts of America even in the Calm of Peace it has been always answer'd that such persons did not commit those Acts of Hostility and Piracy as Subjects to their Majesties and therefore his Catholick Majesty might proceed against them as he should think fit The King of France also added That he had no Fortress or Castle upon the Island of Hispaniola nor receiv'd any Tribute thence It was likewise declar'd by the King of England that he had never given any Patents or Commissions to those of Jamaica for committing any Hostility against the Subjects of his Catholick Majesty The first Pirate that was known upon the Island of Tortuga was Peter the Great born at Dieppe in Normandy who took the Vice Admiral of the Spanish Fleet near the Cape of Tiburon upon the Western side of Hispaniola This Pirate having been Cruzing at Sea for some time without finding any thing to answer his Expectation at length espy'd a great Vessel belonging to the Spanish Fleet separated from the rest and tho' they judg●d her to be much above their strength yet such was their covetousness of the Prey that theywere resolv'd to have the Ship or die in the Attempt to that purpose they bor'd a hole in the sides of their own Boat that their own Vessel sinking under them they might be compell'd to attach the Enemy the more vigorously Thus resolv'd they approach'd the Ship in the dark and boarding it immediately with only a Pistol in one hand and a Sword in the other they ran into the great Cabin where they found the Captain and some of his Companions playing at Cards The Spaniards seeing the Pirates aboard before they had discover'd them at Sea cry'd out Jesus bless us are these Men or Devils In the mean time others of the Pirates made sure of the Gun-Room and Arms therein killing all that made any opposition Peter the Great having thus made himself Master of this famous Prize detain'd in his Service as many of the common Sea-men as he had need of and set the rest ashoar and then with all his wealth set sail for France where he continu'd without ever returning to America again The Planters and Hunters of Tortuga had no sooner understood this happy success of those Pirates but they resolv'd to follow their Example but wanting Boats and small Vessels they set forth in their Canows and began to Cruze about Cape de Alvarez where the Spaniards us'd to Trade from one City to another with Hides and Tobacco and other necessary Commodities Of these Boats laden they took a great number and carry'd their purchase to Tortuga where they sold it to the Ships that waited in Port for their return and thus with the gains of these Prizes they provided themselves with necessaries to undertake more considerable designs Some of their Voyages they made toward the Coast of Campeche and others toward that of New Spain where the Spaniards at that time drave a great Trade and where they met a great number of Trading Vessels and sometimes Ships of great Burthen So that in less than a months time two great Ships which the Spaniards had laden with Plate in the Port of Campeche and bound for Caraca's were by them taken and brought into Tortuga Which Successes so encourag'd the people of the Island that from those small Beginnings within a little space of time there were to be numbred in that small Island and Port above twenty Vessels of those sort of people CHAP. III. How the Pirates Arm their Vessels and Order their Voyages BEfore these Pirates go forth to Sea they give notice to every one that is engag'd in the design of the day that they are punctually to Embark with orders to every one in particular to provide as many pound of Powder as the Voyage may be thought to require Being all aboard the first thing considered is where to get provisions of Flesh especially Pork For which purpose they readily conclude to rob such and such Hog-yards where the Spaniards usually keep a thousand Head of Swine together Nor do they give any Quarter to the Swine-keepers if they offer to disturb or resist them in their Vocation Being thus furnisht with provisions they allow to every man twice a day as much as they can eat without weight or measure Nor has the Captain any proportion of Flesh or any thing else more than the meanest Sea-man Their next deliberation is where to go and seek their Fortunes and then for the Charges and Division of what is got by the common Stock that is concluded upon under Hand and Seal First how much the Captain is to have for his Ship then the Salary for the Carpenter or Shipwright that careen'd the Vessel which generally comes to a hundred or a hundred and fifty pieces of Eight For provisions and victualling they draw out of the common Stock two hundred pieces of Eight The Surgeons Salary and Medicaments are rated at two hundred and fifty pieces of Eight Lastly They agree in writing what recompence every one shall have for the loss of a Limb for the loss of

exact Chymists they were that they knew how to make use of Fire much better than our doating Mountebanks to extract the Philosophers Stone and their Aurum Potabile where they had the power in their hands The people willing to do their utmost to be rid of such merciless Quacks sent some persons to treat with them about their Demands which while they were doing another party went ashore and fetch'd away the Images Bells and Pictures of the Great Church For as they were no Saints themselves so they could endure no Superstition in others At length the Treaty was concluded and Peace was granted for that time to the poor Town of Maracaibo for twenty thousand pieces of Eight and five hundred Cows which when they had receiv'd they set sail with their whole Fleet to the unspeakable Joy of the Inhabitants From thence they steer'd to Hispaniola and came to an Anchor in Cow-Island or Ila de la Vaca possess'd for the most part inhabited by French Buccaneers where they unladed their whole Cargo and made a Dividend according to the method already describ'd Their whole Booty in ready money amounted to 260000 pieces of Eight besides uncoyn'd Plate and Jewels to a vast sum and Linnen Silk and several other Commodities which were all divided according to the exquisite Justice among themselves as well to those that were slain and wounded in the Service as to the Living not omitting peculiar Rewards for signal Actions But all this Mass of Wealth the Stews and Taverns soon devour'd according to Custom insomuch that in a short time they were constrain'd to bethink themselves where to get more CHAP. VI. Lolonnois prepares to assail the City of St. James de Leon and the Town of Nicaragua which proves fatal to to him THis last expedition you may be sure had won Lolonnois a high Esteem among those Devils Incarnate So that there was no great fear but that he might have men enough as bad as himself to follow such a Champion when ever he held up his finger For every one repos'd such a confidence in his Conduct for seeking their Fortunes that they thought themselves secure under his Banners Thereupon he publish'd his design upon Nicaragua which being known he was immediately furnished with seven hundred men which he dispos'd into six Ships With this Fleet he steer'd away and took his Provisions in at Bayaha in Hispaniola which done away they Sailed to Matamana to the South of Cuba to furnish themselves with the poor Fishermens Canows which are very numerous in those parts to serve them in shallow waters From thence they went to Gracias a Dios in fifteen degrees of Northern latitude where they met with such a tedious Calm that by the meer motion of the waves they were thrown into the Gulph of Honduras where in regard they began to want Victuals they resolv'd with their Canows to enter the River of Xagua inhabited by the Indians whom they plunder'd and destroyed meerly for the sake of their Millet Hens and Hogs for they thought it no more Charity to knock the Indian on the head then that they should starve for want of their usual Diet. And because they would not be idle while the calm weather lasted knowing that of Idleness came no good they resolved to keep their hands in use by pillaging all the Towns Villages that lay along the Coast of that Gulph which they did to get Provisions for the accomplishment of their designs without going to Market To which purpose having rifled several Villages as they took 'em in their way at last they came to Pucerto Cavallo where the Spaniards had two Store-houses for the Commodities which they bought up higher in the Country till the arrival of the Ships that carried them off Their Fortune gave them a blessed opportunity to seize a Ship mounted with 24 Guns and sixteen Mortar-pieces a great addition to their strength which they made bold with never troubling themselves to condemn it in their Admiralty But for the Store-houses they burnt em condemned by their Laws for being empty at that time as they did all the Houses in the same place for the same Crime Several of the Inhabitants they took Prisoners to be the sport of their Insolence and more then Heathenish Cruelties if you will allow them to be Christians which 't is thought you may chuse whether you will or no. For it was a custom of Lolonnois after he had tormented any persons that either would not or could not confess immediately to mince 'em in pieces with his Hanger and then pull out their Tongues lest their Cries should ascend to Heaven which was a kindness he profess'd to owe to all the Spaniards in the world out of his natural affection to that Nation Having thus almost annihilated all their Prisoners excepting two whom they preserved for discoveries they march'd on to Santo Piedro ten leagues distant three hundred strong led by Lolonnois himself By that time they had march'd three leagues they met with an ambush of Spaniards whom they totally defeated with the loss of most of the party putting the Prisoners to tormenting deaths without Compassion after they had ask'd 'em what Questions they thought fit for their purpose fulfilling the Proverb confess and be hang'd Lolonnois found by some of their answers that the Spaniards attended him in other places as he was to pass forward thinking to exhaust his force by fighting him in several parties Therefore he commanded them to shew him another way which because the poor wretches could not do he slit open the breast of one of his Prisoners and pulling out his heart gnawed it for very vexation with his Cannibals Teeth By which he perceived there was no other way to the Wood so that he was forc'd to proceed The next day he met with another party of Spaniards which he assail'd with that desperate fury that in less then an hours time he sent the greatest part to the other world In that appearing to be pretty honest for he was downright with the Spaniards what they must trust to if they came in his way so that it was their own fault if they did not beware by other mens harms As it happened to a third Ambuscade both stronger and more advantageously plac'd then the former But the Pirates threw such a number of Tewksbury Mustard-balls among 'em that they soon sing'd them out of their fastnesses put them into disorder and then according to their usual custom kill'd and wounded the greatest part of them before they could reach the Town When they came near to the Town they found but one path to it and that strongly barricado'd the other parts of the Town were surrounded with certain shrubs call'd Raqueltes full of thorns and very sharp pointed R. like Palisado's behind which the Inhabitants ply'd 'em with their great Guns But Raqueltes them no Raqueltes's for so soon as they saw the Enemy begin to fire down they popp'd till the shot was