John Esquemeling

The Buccaneers of America

Herausgeber: Powell, Henry

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Produktbeschreibung

John Esquemeling (better known as Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin) (c. 1645-1707) was a French barber-surgeon best remembered for this classic account of the buccaneer pirates of the West Indies. After travelling to Tortuga in 1666, Esquemeling joined the buccaneer company of Henry Morgan, one of the most successful and notorious privateers of the period. This volume, first published in English in 1684, and now reissued from the 1893 reprint, contains Esquemeling's detailed account of Morgan's dramatic exploits and adventures. Covering the period 1668-1674, Esquemeling recounts in fascinating detail Morgan's infamous attacks on Spanish-controlled ports in Cuba, Hispaniola and Costa Rica, and vividly describes the sack of the city of Panama and its aftermath in 1671. This work was the first account published in English of the lives of the buccaneers, and remains one of the most important sources for descriptions of seventeenth-century piracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 908g
• ISBN-13: 9781108024815
• ISBN-10: 1108024815
• Artikelnr.: 32314676

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; The translator to the reader; Part I: 1. The author sets
forth towards the Western Islands, in the service of the West India Company
of France; 2. Description of the Island of Tortuga; 3. Description of the
great and famous island of Hispaniola; 4. Of the fruits, trees and animals
that are found at Hispaniola; 5. Of all sorts of quadruped animals and
birds that are found in this island; 6. Of the origin of the most famous
pirates of the coasts of America; 7. After what manner the pirates arm
their vessels, and how they regulate their voyages; Part II: 1. Origin of
Francis L'Ollonais, and beginning of his robberies; 2. L'Ollonais equips a
fleet to land upon the Spanish islands of America, with intent to rob, sac,
and burn whatever he met; 3. L'Ollonais makes new preparations to take the
city of St. James de Leon; 4. Of the origin and descent of Captain Henry
Morgan; 5. Some account of the Island of Cuba; 6. Captain Morgan resolveth
to attack and plunder the city of Porto Bello; 7. Captain Morgan taketh the
city of Maracaibo, on the coast of New Venezuela; Part III: 1. Captain
Morgan goes to the Isle of Hispaniola to equip a new fleet, with intent to
pillage again upon the coasts of the West Indies; 2. What happened in the
river De la Hacha; 3. Captain Morgan leaves the Island of Hispaniola, and
goes to that of St. Catharine, which he takes; 4. Captain Morgan takes the
Castle of Chagre, with four hundred men sent for this purpose from the Isle
of St. Catharine; 5. Captain Morgan departs from the Castle of Chagre, at
the head of one thousand two hundred men, with design to take the city of
Panama; 6. Captain Morgan sends several canoes and boats to the South Sea;
7. Of a voyage made by the author, along the coasts of Costa Rica, at his
return towards Jamaica; 8. The author departs towards the Cape of Gracias à
Dios; 9. The relation of the shipwreck, which Monsieur Bertram Ogeron,
Governor of the Isle of Tortuga, suffered near the Isles of Guadanillas;
10. A relation of what encounters lately happened at the Island of Cayana
and Tobago; Part IV: 1. Captain Coxon, Sawkins, Sharp and others set forth
in a fleet towards the province of Darien, upon the continent of America;
2. They march towards the town of Santa Maria; 3. They take the town of
Santa Maria; 4. The Buccaneers leave the town of Santa Maria, and proceed
by sea to take Panama; 5. Shipwreck of Mr. Ringrose; 6. The Buccaneers
prosecute their voyage, till they come within sight of Panama; 7. They
arrive within sight of Panama; 8. Description of the state and condition of
Panama; 9. Captain Sawkins is killed before Puebla Nueva; 10. They depart
from the Island of Cayboa to the Island of Gorgona; 11. The Buccaneers
depart from the Isle of Gorgona, with design to plunder Arica; 12. Captain
Sharp and his company depart from the Isle of Plate, in prosecution of
their voyage towards Arica; 13. A continuation of their long and tedious
voyage to Arica; 14. The Buccaneers depart from the Port of Hilo, and sail
to that of Coquimbo; 15. The Buccaneers depart from Coquimbo for the Isle
of Juan Fernandez; 16. The Buccaneers depart from the Isle of Juan
Fernandez to that of Iquique; 17. A description of the Bay of Arica; 18.
They depart from the Port of Hilo to the Gulf of Nicoya; 19. They depart
from the Gulf of Nicoya to Golfo Dulce; 20. They depart from Golfo Dulce,
to go and cruise under the Quiinoctial; 21. They take another Spanish ship
richly laden under the Equinoctial; 22. They arrive at Paitz, where they
are disappointed of their expectations; 23. The Buccaneers arrive at a
place incognito, to which they give the name of the Duke of York's Islands;
24. They depart from the English Gulf in quest of the Straits of Magellan;
25. The Buccaneers continue their navigation.