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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

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