item: #1 of 21 id: 10394 author: Pyle, Howard title: Stolen Treasure date: None words: 49554 flesch: 70 summary: Then suddenly turning serious: Come Master Barnaby, says he. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl-boat manned by half a score of black men for rowers, and that there were two lanterns in the stern-sheets, and three or four shovels. keywords: away; barnaby; belford; boat; captain; chist; day; face; gentleman; good; hand; head; hero; house; jones; malyoe; man; master; men; moment; morgan; new; night; obadiah; old; parson; place; sand; sir; time; tom; tom chist; true; voice; water; white cache: 10394.txt plain text: 10394.txt item: #2 of 21 id: 15675 author: Dampier, William title: A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 date: None words: 40582 flesch: 75 summary: They have also many other sort of fowls, namely pigeons and turtledoves; miniotas, a sort of land-fowls as big as crows, of a grey colour, and good food; crusias, another sort of grey-coloured fowl almost as big as a crow, which are only seen in the night (probably a sort of owls) and are said to be good for consumptive people but eaten by none else. There were 3 or 4 rocky islands about a league from us between us and the bluff point; and we saw many other islands both to the east and west of it, as far as we could see either way from our topmast-head: and all within them to the south there was nothing but islands of a pretty height, that may be seen 8 or 9 leagues off. keywords: birds; black; brazil; cape; coast; day; degrees; east; etc; fathom; fish; fruit; holland; island; land; latitude; leagues; men; minutes; new; north; sea; ships; shore; sort; south; time; town; voyage; water; west; winds cache: 15675.txt plain text: 15675.txt item: #3 of 21 id: 15685 author: Dampier, William title: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 date: None words: 45680 flesch: 80 summary: We passed by many small islands and among many dangerous shoals without any remarkable occurrence till the 4th of February, when we got within 3 leagues of the north-west cape of New Guinea, called by the Dutch Cape Mabo. Small islands. keywords: bay; boat; cape; dutch; east; fathom; good; guinea; island; leagues; men; morning; night; north; point; sea; ship; shore; south; time; timor; trees; water; west; wind cache: 15685.txt plain text: 15685.txt item: #4 of 21 id: 17188 author: Stockton, Frank Richard title: Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts date: None words: 74375 flesch: 62 summary: But before any relief of this kind could be expected, news came to Charles Town that already a celebrated pirate, named Moody, was outside of the harbor, capturing merchant vessels, and it might be that he was only waiting for the arrival of other pirate ships to sail into the harbor and rescue Bonnet. There were other pirates on the American coast during the eighteenth century, and some of them became very well known, but their stories are not uncommon, and we need not tell them here. keywords: blackbeard; board; boat; bonnet; buccaneers; captain; citizens; coast; course; crew; fight; fleet; french; good; governor; great; island; kidd; l'olonnois; life; man; men; money; morgan; new; people; piracy; pirate; pirate ship; pirate vessel; place; sea; set; ship; spaniards; spanish; thought; time; town; vessel; war; way; world cache: 17188.txt plain text: 17188.txt item: #5 of 21 id: 19139 author: Haring, Clarence Henry title: The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century date: None words: 99623 flesch: 66 summary: Ducasse, Jean-Baptiste (Governor of French Hispaniola), 260-61, 262, 263, 265, 266 Ducéré, Eduard, 285-6 Duro, Cesario Fernandez, 135 _n._, 211 _n._, 243 _n._, 285 Dutch wars, _see_ War West India Company, 47, 49 Dutertre, Jean-Baptiste, 70, 114, 116 _n._, 118 _n._, 282, 284 East Indies, _see_ Indies, East Edmondes, Sir Thomas, 54 Edwards, Bryan, 283 Elizabeth, Queen, 29, 31, 34, 38, 39, 46, 50, 101, 136 Elletson, Robert, 248, 249, 255, 257 _ Villalba y Toledo, Don Francisco de, 77 Villars, Marquis de, 9 _n._ Virgin Islands, 40, 235, 236 Virginia, 47, 51, 54, 112, 129, 201, 207, 272 War between England and France, 1666-67, 131, 141 War between England and Netherlands, 1665-67, 127-41 War between France and Netherlands, 1674-78, 219 _ff._ War of the Spanish Succession, 271-72 Succession of the Palatinate, 258 _ff._ Watson, Sir Francis, 257 Watts, Elias (Governor of Tortuga), 114, 116 and _n._, 117 Watts, Colonel William (Governor of St. Kitts), 130 _n._ Weiss, Charles, 285 West Indies, _see_ Indies, West Whitstone, Sir Thomas (buccaneer), 140, 273 Wilgress, Captain, 201 William III., King of England, 257, 258 Williams, Captain John, _alias_ keywords: admiral; america; bello; buccaneers; c.s.p; captain; cartagena; city; coast; colon; colonies; commission; company; council; cruz; cuba; day; days; dutch; england; english; etc; expedition; exquemelin; fleet; footnote; freebooters; french; galleons; general; good; government; governor; guns; hispaniola; ibid; indies; inhabitants; island; jamaica; king; left; lord; lynch; march; men; modyford; morgan; mss; new; nos; number; orders; panama; pieces; pirates; place; port; prisoners; privateers; royal; san; sea; ships; sir; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; thomas; time; tortuga; town; trade; vessels; vol; war; west; years cache: 19139.txt plain text: 19139.txt item: #6 of 21 id: 19396 author: Masefield, John title: On the Spanish Main; Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien date: None words: 114370 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration: AN ELIZABETHAN GALLEON] During the reign of Elizabeth, the galleon, or great ship, and the galliasse, or cruiser, grew to gradual perfection, in the hands of our great sailors. If we look upon the galleon or great ship as the prototype of the ship of the line, and on the galliasse as the prototype of the frigate, and on the pinnace as the prototype of the sloop, or corvette, we shall not be far wrong. keywords: anchor; attack; bello; boats; buccaneers; cannon; canoas; captain; castle; charge; city; coast; company; cruz; cut; dampier; day; days; dios; drake; end; english; fire; fort; french; going; gold; good; governor; green; guns; half; hands; home; indians; iron; island; john; left; main; man; march; maroons; meat; men; miles; morgan; morning; near; new; night; nombre; number; order; panama; party; pieces; pinnaces; pirates; place; port; powder; prisoners; ready; river; sail; sea; set; sharp; ship; shot; silver; south; spaniards; spanish; thought; time; town; treasure; water; way; west; wood; work cache: 19396.txt plain text: 19396.txt item: #7 of 21 id: 26410 author: Piper, Anna W. Ford title: Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days date: None words: 36631 flesch: 80 summary: The sun had not long risen when Mrs. Carleton with little Cora left the castle. Mrs. Carleton filled a box with both food and fruit, and the ladies, with little Cora, went forth to visit Louisita. keywords: anna; carleton; castle; cecil; child; cora; day; face; hand; heart; island; ladies; life; look; louisita; love; mama; miss; mother; mrs; night; place; room; sea; thought; time; tower; vyvyan; way; years cache: 26410.txt plain text: 26410.txt item: #8 of 21 id: 26690 author: Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) title: The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main date: None words: 59022 flesch: 61 summary: They found much difficulty in their approach to the city, for within the town the Spaniards had placed many great guns, at several quarters, some charged with small pieces of iron, and others with musket bullets; with all these they saluted the pirates at their approaching, and gave them full and frequent broadsides, firing at them incessantly; so that unavoidably they lost at every step great numbers of men. Here they set down distinctly what sums of money each particular person ought to have for that voyage, the fund of all the payments being what is gotten by the whole expedition; for otherwise it is the same law among these people as with other pirates. keywords: captain; captain morgan; castle; city; day; days; english; fire; fleet; french; governor; guns; inhabitants; island; lolonois; men; morgan; new; panama; people; pieces; pirates; place; prisoners; rest; river; sea; seeing; ship; spaniards; spanish; things; time; town; way cache: 26690.txt plain text: 26690.txt item: #9 of 21 id: 26862 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 87423 flesch: 75 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; black; blackbeard; boat; buccaneers; captain; captain morgan; chist; crew; day; dead; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; house; illustration; jonathan; left; levi; lieutenant; life; like; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; sir; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white; world cache: 26862.txt plain text: 26862.txt item: #10 of 21 id: 26960 author: Johnston, Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) title: Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure date: None words: 91160 flesch: 85 summary: The _Richard_ held over toward the first two ships until he saw that it was the _Alliance_ and a prize she had taken about daylight,--a vessel bound for Jamaica, from London. (_See page 273._)] keywords: american; bart; battle; board; boat; british; cannon; captain; coast; crash; crew; day; days; deck; drake; enemy; england; english; fellow; fight; fire; flag; fleet; france; french; gallant; george; good; guns; hand; harbor; head; jean; john; jones; king; lafitte; lay; left; life; little; man; men; officers; order; paul; pirate; port; privateer; raleigh; sail; sailors; sea; shall; ship; shore; shot; sir; spanish; stout; time; vessel; walker; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; wright; zeno cache: 26960.txt plain text: 26960.txt item: #11 of 21 id: 28074 author: Hall, S. C., Mrs. title: The Buccaneer: A Tale date: None words: 176207 flesch: 72 summary: The trooper shook himself, and passed his hand once or twice over his throat, as if to ascertain whether or not he were really strangled; then returning Robin's gaze as steadily, though with a far different expression, he said,-- Upon my soul, you are as strong a hand at a grapple as I would care to meet; nor would I believe, did I not know it, that Roupall the Rover, who has borne more blows upon his thick head than there are days in February, and rises six feet two without boots, could be half choked by little Robin the Ranger, who stands forty inches in his shoes;--but I beg pardon for offending a man of your mettle. Many years before the period of which we treat, Robin had accompanied the Buccaneer on one or two piratical cruises; and though it cannot be denied that Hugh was a better sailor than scholar, yet he generously sought to secure for little Robin the advantages he did not himself possess; Robin, accordingly, received daily instruction in penmanship from a run-away merchant's clerk, the clerk and bookkeeper, the lubber and idler of the crew. keywords: away; barbara; blood; bosom; boy; buccaneer; burrell; care; cavalier; cecil; child; constance; constantia; court; cromwell; dalton; daughter; day; dear; death; door; earth; england; eyes; face; father; feelings; fire; fleetword; frances; free; friend; girl; god; good; great; gull; hand; having; hays; head; heart; highness; hope; house; hugh; lady; lady frances; land; left; life; little; look; lord; love; man; master; mind; mistress; moment; mother; nature; nest; night; person; place; protector; ranger; reply; robert; robin; room; round; roupall; sea; ship; sir; sir robert; sir willmott; spirit; springall; tell; things; think; thought; time; tone; voice; walter; way; willmott burrell; woman; words; world; young; youth cache: 28074.txt plain text: 28074.txt item: #12 of 21 id: 28418 author: Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) title: The Black Buccaneer date: None words: 62108 flesch: 87 summary: Job had dragged Jeremy aft and the two were huddled at the tiller, partially screened by the mainsail, when a howl of consternation broke out aboard the brig. Running forward, Jeremy knelt beside the big collie, then turned with a movement of sudden dismay and called to his comrades. keywords: aboard; big; black; boat; bob; bonnet; boy; boys; cabin; captain; close; crew; daggs; day; deck; eyes; face; father; forward; good; gun; half; hand; head; herriot; island; james; jeremy; job; lad; look; man; men; moment; new; night; pirate; port; sea; set; ship; shot; sloop; thought; time; water; way; white; wind cache: 28418.txt plain text: 28418.txt item: #13 of 21 id: 29316 author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend title: Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main date: None words: 83863 flesch: 84 summary: The officers and older men had observed the course of the ship with growing concern, but no one had ventured to remonstrate with Morgan until old Ben Hornigold as a privileged character finally summoned his courage and approached him. They had enjoyed some unusual opportunities for meeting on account of the station the former filled in the Viceroy's household and the place he held in his heart, yet the opportunities for extended freedom of intercourse between young men and women of the gentler class in those days, and especially among Spaniards of high rank, were extremely limited. keywords: alvarado; arms; buccaneer; captain; day; death; donna; face; father; feet; frigate; god; guayra; hand; head; heart; hornigold; left; life; lord; love; man; master; men; mercedes; moment; morgan; night; officers; rest; sea; ship; sir; spanish; sword; teach; thee; thou; thought; time; tobar; town; viceroy; voice; water; way; woman cache: 29316.txt plain text: 29316.txt item: #14 of 21 id: 37116 author: Burney, James title: History of the Buccaneers of America date: None words: 108315 flesch: 71 summary: Afterwards, when we arrived at _Antigua_, we gave the remaining part (which was about one-third thereof) to a _Bristol_ man, who knew presently what it was; who brought it to _England_, and sold it there for 75_l._ sterling. The watering-place of the Buccaneers was at this time (the latter part of April or beginning of May) entirely dried up, and there was only found a small rivulet between two hills running into the sea; the Northernmost of which hills forms the South point of _Fresh Water Bay_. keywords: account; bay; buccaneers; canoes; cape; captain; chap; city; coast; commander; country; crew; dampier; davis; day; end; english; fleet; flibustiers; french; good; government; governor; having; hispaniola; indians; indies; inhabitants; island; king; latitude; leagues; long; man; men; natives; new; night; north; number; panama; party; people; place; prisoners; river; sail; sea; sharp; ship; shore; sidenote; small; south; spain; spaniards; spanish; swan; time; town; vessels; war; water; west cache: 37116.txt plain text: 37116.txt item: #15 of 21 id: 38631 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 1 (of 3) date: None words: 62688 flesch: 70 summary: Having now attained the summit of his wishes, he became, as many greater men have been, intoxicated with power. Many men would have rested satisfied with such a prize, but Pierre knew no Capua, and thought naught done while aught remained to do. keywords: adventurers; arms; board; buccaneers; canoes; captain; companions; crew; crowns; day; days; death; enemy; english; feet; fire; flibustiers; food; france; french; good; governor; half; hand; hispaniola; history; hunters; indians; island; left; life; lolonnois; man; maracaibo; meat; men; money; montbars; new; night; oexmelin; pieces; place; planters; prisoners; rest; return; round; sea; ship; shore; slaves; spaniards; spanish; time; tortuga; town; vessel; water; way; wild; woods; work cache: 38631.txt plain text: 38631.txt item: #16 of 21 id: 38632 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 2 (of 3) date: None words: 58493 flesch: 70 summary: The guides served them well, but brought them at one spot so near to the castle, and in so open and bare a place, that they lost many men by the shot. This skirmishing continued till the evening, when the Buccaneers, who had lost many men, their commander having his leg broken with a cannon shot, began to waver and to think of retiring, having in vain tried to burn down the place with their fireballs, and charged up to the very walls, which they tried in vain to climb, sword in hand. keywords: arms; attack; boats; buccaneers; canoes; captain; city; crew; day; days; death; enemy; english; expedition; fire; fleet; fort; french; good; governor; guns; indians; island; jamaica; man; men; morgan; night; panama; pieces; place; prisoners; provisions; ringrose; river; sea; sharp; ship; shore; shot; slaves; spaniards; spanish; time; town; vessel; water; way; woods cache: 38632.txt plain text: 38632.txt item: #17 of 21 id: 38633 author: Thornbury, Walter title: The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 3 (of 3) date: None words: 62359 flesch: 72 summary: Amongst other men that consulted Snelgrave was a sailor named Curtis, who, being sick, walked about the deck wrapped in a silk gown. The Spaniards lost many men, and the blood ran out of their scupper holes, but they still cried at parting, A la manana, la partida--(to-morrow, again.) keywords: arms; board; boat; buccaneers; canoes; captain; coast; company; crew; cut; davis; day; days; death; enemy; england; english; fire; fort; french; good; governor; great; guns; island; king; lussan; man; men; new; night; pieces; pirates; place; prisoners; prize; rest; river; roberts; russel; sea; ship; shore; shot; sloop; spaniards; spanish; time; town; vessel; war; water; way cache: 38633.txt plain text: 38633.txt item: #18 of 21 id: 44380 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Buccaneer Chief: A Romance of the Spanish Main date: None words: 104938 flesch: 74 summary: Count Don Stenio de Bejar was a true Spaniard of the age of Charles V., dry, stiff, full of pride and self-sufficiency, always with his hand on his hip, and his head thrown back when he deigned to speak, which, happened to him as rarely as possible, not through any want of sense, as he was far from being a fool; but through indolence and contempt of other men, whom he never looked at without half closing his eyes, and raising the corners of his lips disdainfully. They proceeded separately on tiptoe to the principal square, where they joined other men armed like themselves, who, having arrived first, were waiting. keywords: adventurers; brother; captain; case; clara; count; day; don; doña; duke; engagé; excellency; eyes; face; filibusters; glance; good; governor; hand; hatto; head; heart; island; lady; leave; let; lord; major; man; master; michael; moment; monk; montbarts; order; place; present; right; room; sancho; sir; sister; smile; spaniards; spanish; stranger; time; voice; way; wish; word cache: 44380.txt plain text: 44380.txt item: #19 of 21 id: 52210 author: Bloundelle-Burton, John title: The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893) date: None words: 95645 flesch: 83 summary: Send other men forward to help bind them and fling them forth. Then old man here--he ninety summers old!--then old man, Geronimo, he come in from mines of Hayna in middle of country, where he lived forty year, and hear of talk about you and the silver, and of me the Buzo (which means a diver), and he say he wish he come back sooner much, because he know where carrack lie, where shift off reefy. keywords: alderly; barbara; boat; box; cabin; captain; chapter; come; crafer; day; dead; drink; ere; eyes; feet; find; galliot; girl; good; half; hand; head; home; house; hut; island; king; life; look; man; mind; moment; nicholas; night; phips; place; reginald; river; round; sailor; sea; ship; sir; spot; story; tell; things; thought; time; tis; treasure; twas; water; way; years; young cache: 52210.txt plain text: 52210.txt item: #20 of 21 id: 57039 author: Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright title: Prince Rupert, the Buccaneer date: None words: 64738 flesch: 80 summary: mêlée_ Prince Rupert shone out like a very paladin. One other talk Captain Prince Rupert had with his crew before they came up with their new work. keywords: brigantine; buccaneers; captain; carrack; d'ogeron; day; end; fellow; fight; fleet; galley; good; governor; half; hand; harbour; head; highness; king; laughan; life; little; look; man; master; men; moment; monsieur; pink; place; prince; prince rupert; prisoners; round; sea; seas; secretary; set; señor; ship; simpson; slaves; spaniards; spanish; stephen; time; tortuga; water; way; wick; word; work cache: 57039.txt plain text: 57039.txt item: #21 of 21 id: 973 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 73876 flesch: 76 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; blackbeard; boat; cabin; captain; chist; crew; day; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; left; levi; lieutenant; life; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; ship; sir; spaniards; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white cache: 973.txt plain text: 973.txt